Isaiah 23:16 · JPS 1917

Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot long forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

Who acts: you · What happens: take, go, forget, make, sing, remember · To what, where: harp, thou, sweet melody, many songs

This is Isaiah 23:16 · 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 (you), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 harp	det
3	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 harlot	punct
10	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 go	obl
11	harlot	harlot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thou	appos
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 forgotten	advmod
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thou	acl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 melody	amod
17	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sing	punct
19	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 make	conj
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 songs	amod
21	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 remembered	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 remembered	mark
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 remembered	nsubj:pass
25	mayest	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	27 remembered	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 remembered	aux:pass
27	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sing	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	a harp		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme
2	go	infinitive	you not said here	thou	about the city	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about city=Location
3	forget	participle			long property	tree rules
4	make	infinitive	you not said here	sweet melody		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset melody=Product
5	sing speech: express	infinitive	you not said here	many songs		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
6	remember	may · passive		thou		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme

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

קְחִ֥י כִנּ֛וֹר סֹ֥בִּי עִ֖יר זוֹנָ֣ה נִשְׁכָּחָ֑ה הֵיטִ֤יבִי נַגֵּן֙ הַרְבִּי־שִׁ֔יר לְמַ֖עַן תִּזָּכֵֽרִי׃

Isaiah 23:16: 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:484 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.484/