Isaiah 9:17 · JPS 1917
For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke.
Who acts: wickedness, briers · What happens: burn, devour, kindle, roll, cloud · To what, where: briers, thickets, thick clouds, smoke
This is Isaiah 9:17 · 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 (wickedness, briers), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 burneth | mark |
| 2 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burneth | nsubj |
| 3 | burneth | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 fire | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burneth | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 devoureth | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 devoureth | nsubj |
| 9 | devoureth | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 burneth | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 briers | det |
| 11 | briers | brier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 devoureth | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thorns | cc |
| 13 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 briers | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 kindleth | punct |
| 15 | yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 18 kindleth | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yea | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kindleth | nsubj |
| 18 | kindleth | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 burneth | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 thickets | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thickets | det |
| 21 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kindleth | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thickets | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 roll | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 roll | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 roll | nsubj |
| 28 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 kindleth | conj |
| 29 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 28 roll | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 clouds | case |
| 31 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 clouds | amod |
| 32 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 roll | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 smoke | case |
| 34 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 clouds | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burneth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | wickedness | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | devour | present | wickedness | the briers and thorns | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brier=Patient | ||||
| 3 | kindle | present | wickedness | the thickets of the forest | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | roll | present | briers = brier | thick clouds of smoke | upward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | cloud | smoke | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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
כִּֽי־בָעֲרָ֤ה כָאֵשׁ֙ רִשְׁעָ֔ה שָׁמִ֥יר וָשַׁ֖יִת תֹּאכֵ֑ל וַתִּצַּת֙ בְּסִֽבְכֵ֣י הַיַּ֔עַר וַיִּֽתְאַבְּכ֖וּ גֵּא֥וּת עָשָֽׁן׃
Isaiah 9:17: 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:206 of Mova's parse database.
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