Isaiah 49:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Who acts: woman · What happens: forget, suck, not have · To what, where: sucking child, compassion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Isaiah 49:15 · 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 (woman), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | aux |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forget | nsubj |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 child | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forget | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 have | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forget | ccomp |
| 14 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 son | det |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 womb | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 womb | nmod:poss |
| 20 | womb | womb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- other
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=other, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | can | a woman | woman's sucking child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suck | gerund | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not have | should | woman | compassion | on the son of woman's womb | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=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
הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח אִשָּׁה֙ עוּלָ֔הּ מֵרַחֵ֖ם בֶּן־בִּטְנָ֑הּ גַּם־אֵ֣לֶּה תִשְׁכַּ֔חְנָה וְאָנֹכִ֖י לֹ֥א אֶשְׁכָּחֵֽךְ׃
Isaiah 49:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
- Yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:1097 of Mova's parse database.
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