Isaiah 21:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3
Watchman, what of the night?'
This is Isaiah 21:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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: 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 | Watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Watchman | parataxis |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q, voice=character
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The Hebrew of this verse
מַשָּׂ֖א דּוּמָ֑ה אֵלַי֙ קֹרֵ֣א מִשֵּׂעִ֔יר שֹׁמֵר֙ מַה־מִלַּ֔יְלָה שֹׁמֵ֖ר מַה־מִלֵּֽיל׃
Isaiah 21:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- The burden of Dumah.
- One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night?
- Watchman, what of the night?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:432 of Mova's parse database.
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