Isaiah 55:10 · JPS 1917

For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, except it water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Who acts: rain, earth · What happens: come down, not return, water, make, bring, give · To what, where: earth, seed, sower

This is Isaiah 55:10 · JPS 1917 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 (rain, earth), 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	For	for	CCONJ	_	5 cometh	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 cometh	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cometh	nsubj
5	cometh	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 cometh	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 snow	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cometh	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 heaven	case
11	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snow	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 returneth	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 returneth	cc
14	returneth	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cometh	conj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 returneth	advmod
16	thither	thither	ADV	_	14 returneth	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 water	punct
18	except	except	SCONJ	_	20 water	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 water	nsubj
20	water	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 returneth	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 earth	det
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 water	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 water	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 make	xcomp
28	forth	forth	ADV	_	27 bring	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bud	cc
30	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 give	cc
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 water	conj
34	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 sower	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sower	det
37	sower	sower	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bread	cc
39	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seed	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 eater	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 eater	det
42	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 cometh	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come down	present	the rain			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not return	present	the rain not said here			thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	water	present	rain	the earth			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent earth=Destination
4	make	infinitive	rain not said here	earth			tree rules
5	bring	infinitive	earth not said here			forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
6	give	infinitive	rain not said here	seed and bread	the sower	to the eater	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent seed=Theme to sower=Recipient

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

כִּ֡י כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר יֵרֵד֩ הַגֶּ֨שֶׁם וְהַשֶּׁ֜לֶג מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וְשָׁ֙מָּה֙ לֹ֣א יָשׁ֔וּב כִּ֚י אִם־הִרְוָ֣ה אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְהוֹלִידָ֖הּ וְהִצְמִיחָ֑הּ וְנָ֤תַן זֶ֙רַע֙ לַזֹּרֵ֔עַ וְלֶ֖חֶם לָאֹכֵֽל׃

Isaiah 55:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:1214 of Mova's parse database.

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