Isaiah 56:4 · JPS 1917
For thus saith the LORD concerning the eunuchs that keep My sabbaths, and choose the things that please Me, and hold fast by My covenant:
Who acts: LORD, eunuchs, things, My · What happens: say, concern, keep, choose, please, hold · To what, where: eunuchs, sabbaths, things, Me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Isaiah 56:4 · 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 (LORD, eunuchs, things, My), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 saith | mark |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 saith | advmod |
| 3 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 LORD | det |
| 5 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saith | nsubj |
| 6 | concerning | concern | VERB | _ | 3 saith | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eunuchs | det |
| 8 | eunuchs | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 concerning | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eunuchs | acl:relcl |
| 11 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sabbaths | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sabbaths | sabbath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 choose | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 choose | cc |
| 15 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 things | det |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 choose | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 please | nsubj |
| 19 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 things | acl:relcl |
| 20 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 please | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hold | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hold | cc |
| 23 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | conj |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 hold | advmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 covenant | case |
| 26 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 covenant | nmod:poss |
| 27 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hold | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 saith | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the LORD | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the LORD not said here | the eunuchs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eunuch=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | the eunuchs | My sabbaths | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabbath=Theme | ||||
| 4 | choose | present | the eunuchs not said here | the things | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | please | present | the things | Me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | hold | present | the eunuchs not said here | by My covenant; fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by covenant=Location | ||||
| 7 | covenant | My | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=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
כִּי־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה לַסָּֽרִיסִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִשְׁמְרוּ֙ אֶת־שַׁבְּתוֹתַ֔י וּבָֽחֲר֖וּ בַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר חָפָ֑צְתִּי וּמַחֲזִיקִ֖ים בִּבְרִיתִֽי׃
Isaiah 56:4: 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:1221 of Mova's parse database.
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