Isaiah 28:18 · JPS 1917
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement with the nether-world shall not stand; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it,
Who acts: agreement, scouring scourge, scourge, your · What happens: disannull, not stand, pass through, tread down, covenant, agree · To what, where: covenant, ye
This is Isaiah 28:18 · 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 (agreement, scouring scourge, scourge, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 disannulled | cc |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 covenant | nmod:poss |
| 3 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disannulled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covenant | nmod |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 disannulled | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 disannulled | aux:pass |
| 8 | disannulled | disannull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stand | cc |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 agreement | nmod:poss |
| 11 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stand | nsubj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 14 | nether | nether | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 world | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 nether | punct |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 agreement | nmod |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stand | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 stand | advmod |
| 19 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 disannulled | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 trodden | punct |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 pass | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 scourge | det |
| 23 | scouring | scouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 scourge | amod |
| 24 | scourge | scourge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pass | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 pass | aux |
| 26 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 trodden | advcl |
| 27 | through | through | ADV | _ | 26 pass | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pass | punct |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 trodden | advmod |
| 30 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 trodden | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 trodden | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 trodden | aux:pass |
| 33 | trodden | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stand | conj |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 33 trodden | compound:prt |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 trodden | obl:agent |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 disannulled | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disannull | shall · passive | your covenant with death | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not stand | shall | your agreement with the nether world | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pass through | shall | the scouring scourge | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tread down | shall · passive | scourge | ye | then | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | covenant | your | with death | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl | |||||
| 6 | agree | your | with the nether world | nom agreement «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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
וְכֻפַּ֤ר בְּרִֽיתְכֶם֙ אֶת־מָ֔וֶת וְחָזוּתְכֶ֥ם אֶת־שְׁא֖וֹל לֹ֣א תָק֑וּם שׁ֤וֹט שׁוֹטֵף֙ כִּ֣י יַֽעֲבֹ֔ר וִהְיִ֥יתֶם ל֖וֹ לְמִרְמָֽס׃
Isaiah 28:18: 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:578 of Mova's parse database.
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