--- title: Isaiah 40:28 (JPS 1917) — Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, t… · tree and pragmatics description: Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? Who acts: thou, everlasting God. 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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 (thou, everlasting God), 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:868 # text = Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? 1 Hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 6 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 everlasting everlasting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Creator creator NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 fainteth faint VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 32 cc _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | present · perfect | thou | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **hear** | present · perfect | thou | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **faint** | present | the everlasting God | | | | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | the everlasting God *not said here* | | | | | weary *property* | tree rules | 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} הֲל֨וֹא יָדַ֜עְתָּ אִם־לֹ֣א שָׁמַ֗עְתָּ אֱלֹהֵ֨י עוֹלָ֤ם ׀ יְהוָה֙ בּוֹרֵא֙ קְצ֣וֹת הָאָ֔רֶץ לֹ֥א יִיעַ֖ף וְלֹ֣א יִיגָ֑ע אֵ֥ין חֵ֖קֶר לִתְבוּנָתֽוֹ׃ [Isaiah 40:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.28/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?** 2. [His discernment is past searching out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.869/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:868` 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 40:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.867/) - next →: [Isaiah 40:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.869/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 40:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.28/)