Isaiah 17:13 · JPS 1917
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; but He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Who acts: nations, rushing · What happens: rush, rebuke, flee, chase · To what, where: nations, wind, many waters
This is Isaiah 17:13 · 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 (nations, rushing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nations | det |
| 2 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rush | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 rush | aux |
| 4 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 rushing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rushing | det |
| 7 | rushing | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rush | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 waters | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 waters | amod |
| 10 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rushing | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 rebuke | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 rebuke | cc |
| 13 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rebuke | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 rebuke | aux |
| 15 | rebuke | rebuke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rush | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rebuke | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flee | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flee | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flee | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 flee | aux |
| 21 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rebuke | conj |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 off | advmod |
| 23 | off | off | ADV | _ | 21 flee | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 chased | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 chased | cc |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 chased | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 chased | aux:pass |
| 28 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 rebuke | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 chaff | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 chaff | det |
| 31 | chaff | chaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chased | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 mountains | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mountains | det |
| 34 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 chaff | nmod |
| 35 | before | before | ADP | _ | 37 wind | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wind | det |
| 37 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chased | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 dust | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 dust | cc |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 43 dust | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 dust | det |
| 42 | whirling | whirling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 dust | amod |
| 43 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chased | conj |
| 44 | before | before | ADP | _ | 46 storm | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 storm | det |
| 46 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dust | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rush | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | shall | the nations | like the rushing of many waters | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rebuke | shall | rushing = rush | nations = nation | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flee | shall | nations = nation | off property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chase | shall · passive | rushing = rush not said here | the wind | as the chaff of the mountains | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: before wind=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | rush | many waters | nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient |
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
לְאֻמִּ֗ים כִּשְׁא֞וֹן מַ֤יִם רַבִּים֙ יִשָּׁא֔וּן וְגָ֥עַר בּ֖וֹ וְנָ֣ס מִמֶּרְחָ֑ק וְרֻדַּ֗ף כְּמֹ֤ץ הָרִים֙ לִפְנֵי־ר֔וּחַ וּכְגַלְגַּ֖ל לִפְנֵ֥י סוּפָֽה׃
Isaiah 17:13: 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:372 of Mova's parse database.
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