Isaiah 10:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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.

Who acts: saw, rod, staff · What happens: magnify, move, lift up, not be · To what, where: saw, eggs, hand, wood

This is Isaiah 10:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (saw, rod, staff), 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 magnify	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saw	det
3	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 magnify	nsubj
4	magnify	magnify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 magnify	obj
6	against	against	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 magnify	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 moveth	nsubj
9	moveth	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 him	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 moveth	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 magnify	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 move	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 move	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rod	det
15	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 move	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 move	aux
17	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 magnify	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 move	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lift	nsubj
20	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 them	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lift	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 lift	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lift	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 lift	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 lift	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 lift	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 staff	det
28	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lift	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lift	aux
30	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 move	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 lift	compound:prt
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lift	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 wood	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 wood	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 wood	advmod
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 him	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 magnify	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	magnify	should	the saw	saw	against hand	vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
2	move	present		saw		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	move	should	a rod	eggs = egg		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	lift up	present		saw		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	lift up a condition, not said to happen	should	a staff	hand		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	not is a	present		wood		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

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:231 of Mova's parse database.

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