Isaiah 16:2 · JPS 1917
For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: be, wander, scatter · To what, where: wilderness, fords
This is Isaiah 16:2 · 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 (daughters), 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 | _ | 4 be | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 be | expl |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 fords | mark |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 birds | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 birds | case |
| 8 | wandering | wander | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 birds | amod |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fords | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nest | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 nest | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nest | det |
| 13 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 nest | amod |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 birds | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fords | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 fords | advmod |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fords | aux |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 daughters | det |
| 19 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fords | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Moab | case |
| 21 | Moab | Moab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 daughters | nmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 fords | cop |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 fords | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fords | det |
| 25 | fords | ford | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 be | csubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Arnon | case |
| 27 | Arnon | Arnon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 fords | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | shall | wilderness | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wander | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | scatter | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | shall | the daughters of Moab | the fords | as wandering birds and a scattered nest; of Arnon | 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
וְהָיָ֥ה כְעוֹף־נוֹדֵ֖ד קֵ֣ן מְשֻׁלָּ֑ח תִּֽהְיֶ֙ינָה֙ בְּנ֣וֹת מוֹאָ֔ב מַעְבָּרֹ֖ת לְאַרְנֽוֹן׃
Isaiah 16:2: 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:346 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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