Isaiah 1:17 · JPS 1917
Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Who acts: you · What happens: learn, do, seek, relieve, judge, plead · To what, where: justice, oppressed, fatherless
This is Isaiah 1:17 · 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 (you), 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 | Learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Learn | xcomp |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 seek | punct |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Learn | conj |
| 7 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seek | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 relieve | punct |
| 9 | relieve | relieve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 seek | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 oppressed | det |
| 11 | oppressed | oppress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 relieve | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 judge | punct |
| 13 | judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 seek | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fatherless | det |
| 15 | fatherless | fatherless | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 judge | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 plead | punct |
| 17 | plead | plead | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 seek | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 widow | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 widow | det |
| 20 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plead | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Learn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | imperative | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | you not said here | justice | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | relieve | infinitive | you not said here | the oppressed | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus oppress=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | judge | infinitive | you not said here | the fatherless | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent fatherless=Value | ||||
| 6 | plead speech: request | infinitive | you not said here | for the widow | tree rules |
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
לִמְד֥וּ הֵיטֵ֛ב דִּרְשׁ֥וּ מִשְׁפָּ֖ט אַשְּׁר֣וּ חָמ֑וֹץ שִׁפְט֣וּ יָת֔וֹם רִ֖יבוּ אַלְמָנָֽה׃ס
Isaiah 1:17: 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:17 of Mova's parse database.
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