Isaiah 31:5 · JPS 1917
As birds hovering, so will the LORD of hosts protect Jerusalem; He will deliver it as He protecteth it, He will rescue it as He passeth over.
Who acts: birds, LORD · What happens: hover, protect, deliver, rescue, pass over · To what, where: Jerusalem, multitude
This is Isaiah 31:5 · 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 (birds, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 hovering | mark |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hovering | nsubj |
| 3 | hovering | hover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 protect | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hovering | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 protect | advmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 protect | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 LORD | det |
| 8 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 protect | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hosts | case |
| 10 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 LORD | nmod |
| 11 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 protect | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 deliver | punct |
| 14 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 deliver | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 deliver | aux |
| 16 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 protect | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 deliver | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 protecteth | mark |
| 19 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 protecteth | nsubj |
| 20 | protecteth | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 deliver | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 protecteth | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rescue | punct |
| 23 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rescue | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 rescue | aux |
| 25 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 protect | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rescue | obj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 passeth | mark |
| 28 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 passeth | nsubj |
| 29 | passeth | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 rescue | advcl |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 passeth | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hover | gerund | birds | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | protect | future | the LORD of hosts | Jerusalem | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerusalem=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | deliver | future | LORD | multitude | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | protect | present | LORD | multitude | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | rescue | future | LORD | multitude | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pass over | present | LORD | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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
כְּצִפֳּרִ֣ים עָפ֔וֹת כֵּ֗ן יָגֵ֛ן יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת עַל־יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם גָּנ֥וֹן וְהִצִּ֖יל פָּסֹ֥חַ וְהִמְלִֽיט׃
Isaiah 31:5: 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:656 of Mova's parse database.
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