Isaiah 17:9 · JPS 1917

In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, after the manner of woods and lofty forests; and it shall be a desolation.

Who acts: strong cities, city · What happens: be, forsake · To what, where: forsaken places, desolation

This is Isaiah 17:9 · 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 (strong cities, city), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cities	obl
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 places	aux
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cities	nmod:poss
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cities	amod
7	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 places	nsubj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 places	cop
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 places	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 places	det
11	forsaken	forsake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 places	amod
12	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 forsaken	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 forsaken	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 forsaken	aux:pass
16	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 places	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 children	case
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 children	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 forsaken	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Israel	case
22	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 children	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 manner	punct
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 manner	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 manner	det
26	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forsaken	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 woods	case
28	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 manner	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 forests	cc
30	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 forests	amod
31	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 woods	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 desolation	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 desolation	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 desolation	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 desolation	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 desolation	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 desolation	det
38	desolation	desolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 places	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 places	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	shall	man's strong cities			as the forsaken places and a desolation	tree rules
2	forsake	past · passive		the forsaken places and a desolation	after the manner of woods and lofty forests	from the children of Israel	tree rules
3	is a	shall	city	a desolation			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

בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא יִהְי֣וּ ׀ עָרֵ֣י מָעֻזּ֗וֹ כַּעֲזוּבַ֤ת הַחֹ֙רֶשׁ֙ וְהָ֣אָמִ֔יר אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָזְב֔וּ מִפְּנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהָיְתָ֖ה שְׁמָמָֽה׃

Isaiah 17:9: 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:368 of Mova's parse database.

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