--- title: Isaiah 43:23 (JPS 1917) — Thou hast not brought Me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings; ne… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou hast not brought Me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honoured Me with thy sacrifices. Who acts: Thou, thy. Isaiah 43:23 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.962/) [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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/43/) / [43:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.23/) / JPS 1 # Isaiah 43:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Thou hast not brought Me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honoured Me with thy sacrifices. **Who acts:** Thou, thy · **What happens:** not bring, burn, honour, offer, sacrifice · **To what, where:** small cattle, Me This is Isaiah 43:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Thou, thy), 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:962 # text = Thou hast not brought Me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honoured Me with thy sacrifices. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 2 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 burnt burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 offerings offering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 18 cc _ _ 16 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 18 honoured honour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 19 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sacrifices sacrifice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **bring** | present · perfect | Thou | the small cattle of thy burnt offerings | Me | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination cattle=Theme | | 2 | **burn** | participle | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **honour** | present · perfect | thou | Me | | | | with thy sacrifices | tree rules | | 4 | **offer** | | thy | | | | | | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **sacrifice** | | thy | | | | | | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} לֹֽא־הֵבֵ֤יאתָ לִּי֙ שֵׂ֣ה עֹלֹתֶ֔יךָ וּזְבָחֶ֖יךָ לֹ֣א כִבַּדְתָּ֑נִי לֹ֤א הֶעֱבַדְתִּ֙יךָ֙ בְּמִנְחָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א הוֹגַעְתִּ֖יךָ בִּלְבוֹנָֽה׃ [Isaiah 43:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.23/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Thou hast not brought Me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honoured Me with thy sacrifices.** 2. [I have not burdened thee with a meal-offering, nor wearied thee with frankincense.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.963/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:962` 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 43:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.961/) - next →: [Isaiah 43:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.963/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 43:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.23/)