--- title: Isaiah 40:21 (JPS 1917) — Know ye not? hear ye not? · tree and pragmatics description: Know ye not? hear ye not? Who acts: ye. Isaiah 40:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.858/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / [chapter 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/40/) / [40:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.21/) / JPS 1 # Isaiah 40:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 Know ye not? hear ye not? **Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** not know, not hear This is Isaiah 40:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:ISA:858 # text = Know ye not? hear ye not? 1 Know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 nsubj _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 1 advmod _ _ 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 5 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 6 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | present | ye | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **hear** | present | ye | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} הֲל֤וֹא תֵֽדְעוּ֙ הֲל֣וֹא תִשְׁמָ֔עוּ הֲל֛וֹא הֻגַּ֥ד מֵרֹ֖אשׁ לָכֶ֑ם הֲלוֹא֙ הֲבִ֣ינֹתֶ֔ם מוֹסְד֖וֹת הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [Isaiah 40:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.21/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Know ye not? hear ye not?** 2. [Hath it not been told you from the beginning?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.859/) 3. [Have ye not understood the foundations of the earth?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.860/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:858` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Isaiah 40:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.857/) - next →: [Isaiah 40:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.859/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 40:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.21/)