Isaiah 58:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3
Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
What happens: bow down, spread · To what, where: fast, sackcloth
This is Isaiah 58:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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: 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bow | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bow | expl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bow | mark |
| 4 | bow | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 bow | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bow | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 bulrush | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bulrush | det |
| 10 | bulrush | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bow | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spread | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spread | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 spread | mark |
| 14 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bow | conj |
| 15 | sackcloth | sackcloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ashes | cc |
| 17 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sackcloth | conj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spread | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- express
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed indirect=1, act=express
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow down | present | fast | as a bulrush | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spread | to-infinitive | sackcloth and ashes | under man | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sackcloth=Theme under he=Destination |
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
הֲכָזֶ֗ה יִֽהְיֶה֙ צ֣וֹם אֶבְחָרֵ֔הוּ י֛וֹם עַנּ֥וֹת אָדָ֖ם נַפְשׁ֑וֹ הֲלָכֹ֨ף כְּאַגְמֹ֜ן רֹאשׁ֗וֹ וְשַׂ֤ק וָאֵ֙פֶר֙ יַצִּ֔יעַ הֲלָזֶה֙ תִּקְרָא־צ֔וֹם וְי֥וֹם רָצ֖וֹן לַיהוָֽה׃
Isaiah 58:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul?
- Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
- Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:1263 of Mova's parse database.
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