Isaiah 18:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!
Who acts: That · What happens: send · To what, where: ambassadors, vessels
This is Isaiah 18:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 sendeth | nsubj |
| 2 | sendeth | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sendeth | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sendeth | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vessels | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 vessels | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 vessels | case |
| 10 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sendeth | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 papyrus | case |
| 12 | papyrus | papyrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vessels | nmod |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 waters | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waters | det |
| 15 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 vessels | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 sendeth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=excl
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | That | ambassadors | vessels of papyrus upon the waters | by the sea | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme in vessel=Destination |
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
הַשֹּׁלֵ֨חַ בַּיָּ֜ם צִירִ֗ים וּבִכְלֵי־גֹמֶא֮ עַל־פְּנֵי־מַיִם֒ לְכ֣וּ ׀ מַלְאָכִ֣ים קַלִּ֗ים אֶל־גּוֹי֙ מְמֻשָּׁ֣ךְ וּמוֹרָ֔ט אֶל־עַ֥ם נוֹרָ֖א מִן־ה֣וּא וָהָ֑לְאָה גּ֚וֹי קַו־קָ֣ו וּמְבוּסָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־בָּזְא֥וּ נְהָרִ֖ים אַרְצֽוֹ׃
Isaiah 18:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!
- Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:376 of Mova's parse database.
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