Isaiah 29:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it: 'He made me not'; or the thing framed say of him that framed it: 'He hath no understanding?'

Who acts: thing, LORD · What happens: esteem, make, say, not make, frame, have · To what, where: potter, thing, me, understanding · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Isaiah 29:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (thing, LORD), 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	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 esteemed	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 potter	det
3	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 esteemed	nsubj:pass
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 esteemed	aux:pass
5	esteemed	esteem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 clay	case
7	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 esteemed	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 say	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 thing	acl
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 esteemed	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 say	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 him	acl:relcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
22	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 esteemed	parataxis
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 made	obj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 made	advmod
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 framed	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 framed	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thing	det
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 framed	nsubj
31	framed	frame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 made	conj
32	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 framed	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 say	obl
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 framed	nsubj
36	framed	frame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 him	acl:relcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 framed	obj
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 hath	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 hath	punct
40	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 hath	nsubj
41	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 esteemed	parataxis
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 understanding	det
43	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hath	obj
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	41 hath	punct
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 hath	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	esteem	shall · passive		the potter	as clay	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	make	participle		the thing not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	say speech: assert	should	the thing		of LORD	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	make	past		thing		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	not make	past	LORD	me		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product
6	frame	participle	the thing			tree rules
7	say speech: assert	infinitive	the thing not said here		of LORD	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	frame	past		thing		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
9	have	present	LORD	no understanding		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient

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

הַ֨פְכְּכֶ֔ם אִם־כְּחֹ֥מֶר הַיֹּצֵ֖ר יֵֽחָשֵׁ֑ב כִּֽי־יֹאמַ֨ר מַעֲשֶׂ֤ה לְעֹשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ לֹ֣א עָשָׂ֔נִי וְיֵ֛צֶר אָמַ֥ר לְיוֹצְר֖וֹ לֹ֥א הֵבִֽין׃

Isaiah 29:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

O your perversity!
Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it: 'He made me not'; or the thing framed say of him that framed it: 'He hath no understanding?'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:609 of Mova's parse database.

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