Isaiah 3:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.
Who acts: show, people · What happens: witness, declare, not hide, show · To what, where: sin, countenance
This is Isaiah 3:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (show, people), 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 show | det |
| 2 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 witness | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 countenance | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 show | nmod |
| 6 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 witness | aux |
| 7 | witness | witness | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 witness | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 declare | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 declare | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 declare | nsubj |
| 13 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 witness | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 declare | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 Sodom | case |
| 17 | Sodom | Sodom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 declare | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hide | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hide | nsubj |
| 20 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 witness | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hide | obj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 hide | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 witness | 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 | witness | present · do-support | the show of people's countenance | against people | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | present | people | people's sin | as Sodom | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sin=Theme as sodom=Attribute | |||
| 3 | not hide | present | people | sin | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | show | people's countenance | nom show «act transitive»: of=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
הַכָּרַ֤ת פְּנֵיהֶם֙ עָ֣נְתָה בָּ֔ם וְחַטָּאתָ֛ם כִּסְדֹ֥ם הִגִּ֖ידוּ לֹ֣א כִחֵ֑דוּ א֣וֹי לְנַפְשָׁ֔ם כִּֽי־גָמְל֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם רָעָֽה׃
Isaiah 3:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.
- Woe unto their soul! for they have wrought evil unto themselves.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:63 of Mova's parse database.
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