Did English speakers say "this novel reads well" two, three hundred years ago?
For the first person there is 'listen' (or 'hear'). Does English not have a corresponding word for the third person ?
What about Germanaic or Nordic languages ? Do they have a third person analogue of 'listen' ?
> Listen the watchman’s cry upon the wall.
Edit: formatting
I have clarified what I am looking for in a cousin comment.
I can 'show' (or point someone to a) a sight that I am not myself creating in anyway. The word I am looking for would mean to 'make you hear' in the same may to show is to make you see.
I showed him the distant tower.
I ??? him the faint sound.
I played him the faint sound.
The bell rang should become The bell was rung, either way it means The bell rang another bell.
"the bell rang" illustrates an effect (the vibration and sound of the bell as it rings).
i think this is more an illustration of the ambiguity of the root word "ring", which can be an action by a subject upon an object, or to describe the behavior of the object itself.
Debates whether to update the sidenote with an explainer on ambitransitive and labile verbs