Isaiah 14:21 · JPS 1917
Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.
Who acts: ye, fathers · What happens: prepare, not rise up, possess, fill · To what, where: slaughter, earth, face
This is Isaiah 14:21 · 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 (ye, fathers), 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 | Prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Prepare | nsubj |
| 3 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Prepare | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 children | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 children | nmod:poss |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Prepare | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 iniquity | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 iniquity | det |
| 9 | iniquity | iniquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Prepare | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fathers | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 iniquity | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 rise | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 rise | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rise | nsubj |
| 16 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Prepare | advcl |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 rise | advmod |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 rise | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 possess | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 possess | cc |
| 21 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rise | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earth | det |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 possess | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fill | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fill | cc |
| 26 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 possess | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 face | det |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fill | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 face | nmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 cities | case |
| 33 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fill | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Prepare | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | infinitive | ye | slaughter | for raiment's children; for the iniquity of children's fathers | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent slaughter=Product for child=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | not rise up | present | fathers = father | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | possess | present | fathers = father not said here | the earth | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot earth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | present | fathers = father not said here | the face of the world | with cities | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with city=Instrument |
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
הָכִ֧ינוּ לְבָנָ֛יו מַטְבֵּ֖חַ בַּעֲוֺ֣ן אֲבוֹתָ֑ם בַּל־יָקֻ֙מוּ֙ וְיָ֣רְשׁוּ אָ֔רֶץ וּמָלְא֥וּ פְנֵֽי־תֵבֵ֖ל עָרִֽים׃
Isaiah 14:21: 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:321 of Mova's parse database.
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