Isaiah 58:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
'Wherefore have we fasted, and Thou seest not?
Who acts: we, Thou · What happens: fast, not see
This is Isaiah 58:3 · 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 (we, Thou), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fasted | punct |
| 2 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 fasted | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fasted | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fasted | nsubj |
| 5 | fasted | fast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seest | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seest | cc |
| 8 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 seest | nsubj |
| 9 | seest | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fasted | conj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 seest | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fasted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fast | present · perfect | we | wherefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | present | Thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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 צַּ֙מְנוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א רָאִ֔יתָ עִנִּ֥ינוּ נַפְשֵׁ֖נוּ וְלֹ֣א תֵדָ֑ע הֵ֣ן בְּי֤וֹם צֹֽמְכֶם֙ תִּמְצְאוּ־חֵ֔פֶץ וְכָל־עַצְּבֵיכֶ֖ם תִּנְגֹּֽשׂוּ׃
Isaiah 58:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- 'Wherefore have we fasted, and Thou seest not?
- Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and Thou takest no knowledge?' — Behold, in the day of your fast ye pursue your business, and exact all your labours.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:1259 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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