Isaiah 16:8 · JPS 1917

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, whose choice plants did overcome the lords of nations; they reached even unto Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her branches were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

Who acts: fields, choice plants, plants, branches · What happens: languish, overcome, reach, wander, spread, pass · To what, where: lords, wilderness, branches, sea

This is Isaiah 16:8 · 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 (fields, choice plants, plants, branches), 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	CCONJ	_	6 languish	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fields	det
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 languish	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Heshbon	case
5	Heshbon	Heshbon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fields	nmod
6	languish	languish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vine	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 vine	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vine	det
10	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fields	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Sibmah	case
12	Sibmah	Sibmah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 vine	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 overcome	punct
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 plants	nmod:poss
15	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plants	compound
16	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 overcome	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 overcome	aux
18	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 vine	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lords	det
20	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 overcome	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 nations	case
22	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lords	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 reached	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reached	nsubj
25	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 languish	parataxis
26	even	even	ADV	_	28 Jazer	advmod
27	unto	unto	ADP	_	28 Jazer	case
28	Jazer	Jazer	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 reached	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wandered	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wandered	nsubj
31	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reached	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 wilderness	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wilderness	det
34	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wandered	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 spread	punct
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 branches	nmod:poss
37	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 spread	nsubj:pass
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 spread	aux:pass
39	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 languish	parataxis
40	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	39 spread	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 passed	punct
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 passed	nsubj
43	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 spread	parataxis
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 sea	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sea	det
46	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 passed	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 languish	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	languish	present	the fields of Heshbon and the vine of Sibmah				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	overcome	past · do-support	choice plants	the lords of nations			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lord=Theme
3	reach	past	plants = plant			unto Jazer	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wander	past	plants = plant		the wilderness		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=Destination
5	spread	past · passive		Jazer's branches		abroad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	pass	past	branches = branch		the sea		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over sea=Location

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

כִּ֣י שַׁדְמוֹת֩ חֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן אֻמְלָ֜ל גֶּ֣פֶן שִׂבְמָ֗ה בַּעֲלֵ֤י גוֹיִם֙ הָלְמ֣וּ שְׂרוּקֶּ֔יהָ עַד־יַעְזֵ֥ר נָגָ֖עוּ תָּ֣עוּ מִדְבָּ֑ר שְׁלֻ֣חוֹתֶ֔יהָ נִטְּשׁ֖וּ עָ֥בְרוּ יָֽם׃

Isaiah 16:8: 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:352 of Mova's parse database.

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