Isaiah 10:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Should the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?
Who acts: axe · What happens: boast, hew · To what, where: axe
This is Isaiah 10:15 · 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 (axe), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 boast | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 axe | det |
| 3 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boast | nsubj |
| 4 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 boast | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 boast | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 heweth | nsubj |
| 9 | heweth | hew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 him | acl:relcl |
| 10 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 9 heweth | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 boast | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | should | the axe | axe | against hand | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hew | present | therewith property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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
הֲיִתְפָּאֵר֙ הַגַּרְזֶ֔ן עַ֖ל הַחֹצֵ֣ב בּ֑וֹ אִם־יִתְגַּדֵּ֤ל הַמַּשּׂוֹר֙ עַל־מְנִיפ֔וֹ כְּהָנִ֥יף שֵׁ֙בֶט֙ וְאֶת־מְרִימָ֔יו כְּהָרִ֥ים מַטֶּ֖ה לֹא־עֵֽץ׃
Isaiah 10:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Should the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?
- Should the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? as if a rod should move them that lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:230 of Mova's parse database.
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