Isaiah 19:11 · JPS 1917
The princes of Zoan are utter fools; the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh are a senseless counsel; how can ye say unto Pharaoh: 'I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings'?
Who acts: princes, wisest counsellors, ye, I · What happens: be, say · To what, where: utter fools, senseless counsel, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Isaiah 19:11 · 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 (princes, wisest counsellors, ye, I), 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 princes | det |
| 2 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fools | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Zoan | case |
| 4 | Zoan | Zoan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 princes | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fools | cop |
| 6 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fools | amod |
| 7 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 counsellors | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 counsellors | det |
| 10 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 counsellors | amod |
| 11 | counsellors | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 counsel | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Pharaoh | case |
| 13 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 counsellors | nmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 counsel | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 counsel | det |
| 16 | senseless | senseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 counsel | amod |
| 17 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fools | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 say | punct |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 say | advmod |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 say | aux |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 say | nsubj |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fools | conj |
| 23 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 24 Pharaoh | case |
| 24 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 say | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 son | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 son | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 son | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 son | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 son | det |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 say | ccomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 wise | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 wise | det |
| 33 | wise | wise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 son | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 son | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 son | det |
| 36 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wise | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 kings | case |
| 38 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 kings | amod |
| 39 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 son | nmod |
| 40 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 39 kings | case |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fools | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the princes of Zoan | utter fools and a senseless counsel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh | a senseless counsel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | can | ye | unto Pharaoh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | the son | of the wise and the son of ancient kings | 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
אַךְ־אֱוִלִים֙ שָׂ֣רֵי צֹ֔עַן חַכְמֵי֙ יֹעֲצֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔ה עֵצָ֖ה נִבְעָרָ֑ה אֵ֚יךְ תֹּאמְר֣וּ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֔ה בֶּן־חֲכָמִ֥ים אֲנִ֖י בֶּן־מַלְכֵי־קֶֽדֶם׃
Isaiah 19:11: 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:394 of Mova's parse database.
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