Isaiah 50:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 4
Or have I no power to deliver?
Who acts: I · What happens: have, deliver · To what, where: power
This is Isaiah 50:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 2 have | cc |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 power | det |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 deliver | mark |
| 7 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 power | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed indirect=1, act=express, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 2 | deliver | to-infinitive | I not said here | no power not said here | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:1118 of Mova's parse database.
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