Isaiah 8:19 · JPS 1917

And when they shall say unto you: 'Seek unto the ghosts and the familiar spirits, that chirp and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living unto the dead

Who acts: wonders, you, familiar spirits, that, people · What happens: say, seek, chirp, mutter, not seek · To what, where: behalf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Isaiah 8:19 · 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 (wonders, you, familiar spirits, that), 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	_	10 Seek	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 say	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Seek	advcl
6	unto	unto	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Seek	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 Seek	punct
10	Seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 ghosts	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ghosts	det
13	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Seek	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spirits	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spirits	det
16	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spirits	amod
17	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ghosts	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chirp	punct
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 chirp	nsubj
20	chirp	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 spirits	acl:relcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mutter	cc
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 mutter	nsubj
23	mutter	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 chirp	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 seek	punct
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 seek	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 seek	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 people	det
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 seek	nsubj
29	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Seek	parataxis
30	unto	unto	ADP	_	32 God	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 God	nmod:poss
32	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 seek	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 seek	punct
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 behalf	case
35	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seek	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 living	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 living	det
38	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 behalf	nmod
39	unto	unto	ADP	_	41 dead	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 dead	det
41	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 living	amod

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	shall	wonders = wonder		unto you	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	seek	imperative	you not said here		unto the ghosts and the familiar spirits	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chirp	present	the familiar spirits			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mutter speech: assert	present	that			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not seek	should	a people	behalf of the living	unto wonders's God	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on behalf=Location

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

וְכִֽי־יֹאמְר֣וּ אֲלֵיכֶ֗ם דִּרְשׁ֤וּ אֶל־הָאֹבוֹת֙ וְאֶל־הַיִּדְּעֹנִ֔ים הַֽמְצַפְצְפִ֖ים וְהַמַּהְגִּ֑ים הֲלוֹא־עַם֙ אֶל־אֱלֹהָ֣יו יִדְרֹ֔שׁ בְּעַ֥ד הַחַיִּ֖ים אֶל־הַמֵּתִֽים׃

Isaiah 8:19: 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:181 of Mova's parse database.

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