2 Kings 20:9 · JPS 1917
And Isaiah said: 'This shall be the sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that He hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
Who acts: Isaiah, This, LORD, shadow · What happens: say, be, do, speak, go, go back · To what, where: sign, thing, ten degrees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Kings 20:9 · JPS 1917 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 (Isaiah, This, LORD, shadow), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Isaiah | Isaiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 sign | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sign | punct |
| 6 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sign | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sign | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sign | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sign | det |
| 10 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 thee | case |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 sign | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 LORD | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 LORD | det |
| 15 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sign | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 LORD | det |
| 19 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sign | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 spoken | obj |
| 25 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spoken | nsubj |
| 26 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 spoken | aux |
| 27 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 thing | acl:relcl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 go | punct |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 go | aux |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 shadow | det |
| 31 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | nsubj |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 33 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 32 go | advmod |
| 34 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 degrees | nummod |
| 35 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 go | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 go | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 go | cc |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 go | conj |
| 39 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 go | advmod |
| 40 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 degrees | nummod |
| 41 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 go | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=q
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Isaiah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | shall | This | the sign | unto thee; from the LORD | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | future | the LORD | the thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present · perfect | LORD | the thing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | shall | the shadow | ten degrees | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | go back | infinitive | the shadow not said here | ten degrees | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְשַׁעְיָ֗הוּ זֶה־לְּךָ֤ הָאוֹת֙ מֵאֵ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֚י יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה אֶת־הַדָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֵּ֑ר הָלַ֤ךְ הַצֵּל֙ עֶ֣שֶׂר מַֽעֲל֔וֹת אִם־יָשׁ֖וּב עֶ֥שֶׂר מַעֲלֽוֹת׃
2 Kings 20:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2KI:639 of Mova's parse database.
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