Isaiah 51:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?
Who acts: thou, that · What happens: not be, hew, pierce · To what, where: strength, Rahab, pieces, dragon
This is Isaiah 51:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (thou, that), 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 | Art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 it | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 it | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hewed | nsubj |
| 6 | hewed | hew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Rahab | Rahab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hewed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pieces | case |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hewed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pierced | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 pierced | nsubj |
| 12 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hewed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pierced | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | thou | strength | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hew | past | Rahab | pieces | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rahab=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pierce | past | that | the dragon | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent dragon=Instrument |
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
עוּרִ֨י עוּרִ֤י לִבְשִׁי־עֹז֙ זְר֣וֹעַ יְהוָ֔ה ע֚וּרִי כִּ֣ימֵי קֶ֔דֶם דֹּר֖וֹת עוֹלָמִ֑ים הֲל֥וֹא אַתְּ־הִ֛יא הַמַּחְצֶ֥בֶת רַ֖הַב מְחוֹלֶ֥לֶת תַּנִּֽין׃
Isaiah 51:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times.
- Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:1140 of Mova's parse database.
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