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title: Isaiah 43:23 (JPS 1917) — I have not burdened thee with a meal-offering, nor wearied thee with… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have not burdened thee with a meal-offering, nor wearied thee with frankincense. Who acts: I. Isaiah 43:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 43:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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I have not burdened thee with a meal-offering, nor wearied thee with frankincense.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not burden, weary · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Isaiah 43:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (I), 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:963
# text = I have not burdened thee with a meal-offering, nor wearied thee with frankincense.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	burdened	burden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
13	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	frankincense	frankincense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: disagree
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **burden** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  | with a meal offering | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient with offering=Theme |
| 2 | **weary** | participle | I *not said here* | thee |  |  |  | with frankincense | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer |

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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}

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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/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Thou hast not brought Me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honoured Me with thy sacrifices.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.962/)
2. **I have not burdened thee with a meal-offering, nor wearied thee with frankincense.**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:963` 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.

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