Isaiah 40:20 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ

Who acts: silversmith, tree · What happens: set apart, choose, not rot, seek, set up, not move · To what, where: holm oak, tree, cunning craftsman, image

This is Isaiah 40:20 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — silversmith, tree — and what happens in the verse to holm oak, tree, cunning craftsman, image, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 66 chapters of Isaiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

הַֽמְסֻכָּ֣ן תְּרוּמָ֔ה עֵ֥ץ לֹֽא־יִרְקַ֖ב יִבְחָ֑ר חָרָ֤שׁ חָכָם֙ יְבַקֶּשׁ־ל֔וֹ לְהָכִ֥ין פֶּ֖סֶל לֹ֥א יִמּֽוֹט׃

A holm-oak is set apart, he chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning craftsman to set up an image, that shall not be moved.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	הַֽ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	2 מְסֻכָּ֣ן	det	the impoverished
2	מְסֻכָּ֣ן	סָכַן	NOUN	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PUAL Number=Sing	7 יִבְחָ֑ר	nsubj	[person]
3	תְּרוּמָ֔ה	תְּרוּמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	7 יִבְחָ֑ר	xcomp	a contribution
4	עֵ֥ץ	עֵץ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 יִבְחָ֑ר	obj	wood
5	לֹֽא־	לֹא	ADV	_	6 יִרְקַ֖ב	advmod	[which] not
6	יִרְקַ֖ב	רָקֵב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	4 עֵ֥ץ	acl	it will rot
7	יִבְחָ֑ר	בָּחַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he chooses
8	חָרָ֤שׁ	חָרָשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	10 יְבַקֶּשׁ־	obj	a craftsman
9	חָכָם֙	חָכָם	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 חָרָ֤שׁ	amod	skillful
10	יְבַקֶּשׁ־	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	7 יִבְחָ֑ר	parataxis	he seeks
11	ל	לְ	ADP	_	12 ֔וֹ	case	for
12	֔וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 יְבַקֶּשׁ־	obl	himself
13	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	14 הָכִ֥ין	case	to
14	הָכִ֥ין	כּוּן	VERB	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	10 יְבַקֶּשׁ־	advcl	prepare
15	פֶּ֖סֶל	פֶּסֶל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 הָכִ֥ין	obj	an idol
16	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	17 יִמּֽוֹט	advmod	[which] not
17	יִמּֽוֹט	מוֹט	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing Person=3	15 פֶּ֖סֶל	acl	it will be shaken
18	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	17 יִמּֽוֹט	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
not יִרְקַב it will rot	yiqtol · qal	עֵץ wood
יִבְחָר he chooses	yiqtol · qal	מְסֻכָּן [person]	עֵץ wood
יְבַקֶּשׁ־ he seeks	yiqtol · piel	מְסֻכָּן [person]	חָרָשׁ a craftsman
הָכִין prepare	infinitive construct · hiphil	פֶּסֶל an idol		חָרָשׁ a craftsman
not יִמּֽוֹט it will be shaken	yiqtol · niphal		פֶּסֶל an idol

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Jonathan

אוֹרָן בָּרֵי אָעָא דְלָא אָחִיד בֵּיהּ רִקְבָא בָּחַר נַגַר אוּמַן בְּעֵי לֵיהּ לְאַתְקָנָא צְלַם דְלָא יִצְטְלֵי:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

A holm-oak is set apart, he chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning craftsman to set up an image, that shall not be moved.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:ISA:785.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.20/