Isaiah 18:5 · JPS 1917

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.

Who acts: blossom, bud · What happens: be, become, ripen, cut off, take away, lop off · To what, where: ripening grape, sprigs, shoots

This is Isaiah 18:5 · 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 (blossom, bud), 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	_	22 cut	mark
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 harvest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 harvest	det
4	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 over	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 over	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blossom	det
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 over	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 over	cop
10	over	over	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cut	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 becometh	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 becometh	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bud	det
14	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 becometh	nsubj
15	becometh	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 over	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 grape	det
17	ripening	ripen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 grape	amod
18	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 becometh	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
20	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cut	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cut	aux
22	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 cut	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sprigs	det
25	sprigs	sprig	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cut	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 hooks	case
27	pruning	pruning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hooks	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 hooks	punct
29	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cut	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 take	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 take	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shoots	det
33	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 take	obj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 take	aux
35	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 take	nsubj
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cut	conj
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 take	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 lop	cc
39	lop	lop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 take	conj
40	off	off	ADP	_	39 lop	compound:prt
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 cut	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	present	the blossom			over property	tree rules
2	become	present	the bud	a ripening grape			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	ripen	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	cut off	future	bud	the sprigs	before the harvest	with pruning hooks	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector sprig=Eventuality
5	take away	future	bud	the shoots		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoot=Theme
6	lop off	infinitive	bud not said here				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ כְּתָם־פֶּ֔רַח וּבֹ֥סֶר גֹּמֵ֖ל יִֽהְיֶ֣ה נִצָּ֑ה וְכָרַ֤ת הַזַּלְזַלִּים֙ בַּמַּזְמֵר֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַנְּטִישׁ֖וֹת הֵסִ֥יר הֵתַֽז׃

Isaiah 18:5: 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:380 of Mova's parse database.

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