Isaiah 50:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 4

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer?

Who acts: I · What happens: come, call, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Isaiah 50:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	7 was	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wherefore	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 was	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 called	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj
14	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 was	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 was	parataxis
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
18	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	16 was	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 answer	mark
20	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 none	acl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	come	past	I	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	past	I	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

מַדּ֨וּעַ בָּ֜אתִי וְאֵ֣ין אִ֗ישׁ קָרָֽאתִי֮וְאֵ֣ין עוֹנֶה֒ הֲקָצ֨וֹר קָצְרָ֤ה יָדִי֙ מִפְּד֔וּת וְאִם־אֵֽין־בִּ֥י כֹ֖חַ לְהַצִּ֑יל הֵ֣ן בְּגַעֲרָתִ֞י אַחֲרִ֣יב יָ֗ם אָשִׂ֤ים נְהָרוֹת֙ מִדְבָּ֔ר תִּבְאַ֤שׁ דְּגָתָם֙ מֵאֵ֣ין מַ֔יִם וְתָמֹ֖ת בַּצָּמָֽא׃

Isaiah 50:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer?
Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish become foul, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:1116 of Mova's parse database.

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