Isaiah 6:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?
Who acts: I · What happens: hear, say, send, go · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Isaiah 6:8 · 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 (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lord | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lord | det |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 12 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 send | obj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 send | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 send | nsubj |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 send | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | I | the voice of the Lord | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | send | shall | I | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | future | for us | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for we=Beneficiary |
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
וָאֶשְׁמַ֞ע אֶת־ק֤וֹל אֲדֹנָי֙ אֹמֵ֔ר אֶת־מִ֥י אֶשְׁלַ֖ח וּמִ֣י יֵֽלֶךְ־לָ֑נוּ וָאֹמַ֖ר הִנְנִ֥י שְׁלָחֵֽנִי׃
Isaiah 6:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?
- Then I said: 'Here am I; send me.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:129 of Mova's parse database.
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