Isaiah 55:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your gain for that which satisfieth not?
Who acts: ye · What happens: spend, not be, not satisfy · To what, where: money, bread
This is Isaiah 55:2 · 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 (ye), 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 | 4 spend | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spend | aux |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 spend | nsubj |
| 4 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spend | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 spend | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bread | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bread | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 bread | advmod |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 that | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 spend | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gain | cc |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gain | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spend | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 gain | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 satisfieth | nsubj |
| 19 | satisfieth | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 that | acl:relcl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 satisfieth | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 gain | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-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 | spend | present · do-support | ye | money | for that; wherefore property | vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Asset for that=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is a | present | bread | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not satisfy | present | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
לָ֤מָּה תִשְׁקְלוּ־כֶ֙סֶף֙ בְּֽלוֹא־לֶ֔חֶם וִיגִיעֲכֶ֖ם בְּל֣וֹא לְשָׂבְעָ֑ה שִׁמְע֨וּ שָׁמ֤וֹעַ אֵלַי֙ וְאִכְלוּ־ט֔וֹב וְתִתְעַנַּ֥ג בַּדֶּ֖שֶׁן נַפְשְׁכֶֽם׃
Isaiah 55:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your gain for that which satisfieth not?
- Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:1205 of Mova's parse database.
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