Isaiah 58:2 · JPS 1917

Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways; as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of Me righteous ordinances, they delight to draw near unto God.

Who acts: people, nation · What happens: seek, delight, know, do, not forsake, ask · To what, where: Me, ways, righteousness, ordinance, righteous ordinances, God

This is Isaiah 58:2 · 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 (people, nation), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	3 seek	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seek	nsubj
3	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seek	obj
5	daily	daily	ADV	_	3 seek	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 delight	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 delight	cc
8	delight	delight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seek	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 know	mark
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 delight	xcomp
11	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ways	nmod:poss
12	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 know	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 ask	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 nation	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 nation	det
16	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ask	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 nation	acl:relcl
19	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 did	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 forsook	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 forsook	cc
22	forsook	forsake	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 did	conj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 forsook	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ordinance	det
25	ordinance	ordinance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 forsook	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 God	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 God	nmod:poss
28	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 ordinance	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ask	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ask	nsubj
31	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seek	parataxis
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Me	case
33	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 ask	obl
34	righteous	righteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ordinances	amod
35	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ask	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 delight	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 delight	nsubj
38	delight	delight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seek	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 draw	mark
40	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 delight	xcomp
41	near	near	ADV	_	40 draw	advmod
42	unto	unto	ADP	_	43 God	case
43	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 draw	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seek	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seek	present	people	Me	daily property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	delight	present	people not said here			tree rules
3	know	to-infinitive	people not said here	My ways		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
4	do	past	a nation	righteousness		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteousness=Eventuality
5	not forsake	past	a nation not said here	the ordinance of people's God		tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	present	people	righteous ordinances	as a nation; of Me	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ordinance=Recipient
7	delight	present	people			tree rules
8	draw	to-infinitive	people not said here		unto God; near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	ordain			people's God		nom ordinance «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

וְאוֹתִ֗י י֥וֹם יוֹם֙ יִדְרֹשׁ֔וּן וְדַ֥עַת דְּרָכַ֖י יֶחְפָּצ֑וּן כְּג֞וֹי אֲשֶׁר־צְדָקָ֣ה עָשָׂ֗ה וּמִשְׁפַּ֤ט אֱלֹהָיו֙ לֹ֣א עָזָ֔ב יִשְׁאָל֙וּנִי֙ מִשְׁפְּטֵי־צֶ֔דֶק קִרְבַ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֖ים יֶחְפָּצֽוּן׃

Isaiah 58:2: 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:1258 of Mova's parse database.

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