Isaiah 1:7 · JPS 1917

Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by floods.

Who acts: country, strangers · What happens: be, burn, devour, overthrow · To what, where: cities, country, presence

This is Isaiah 1:7 · 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 (country, strangers), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 country	nmod:poss
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 desolate	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 desolate	cop
4	desolate	desolate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 burned	punct
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cities	nmod:poss
7	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 burned	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 burned	aux:pass
9	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 desolate	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 fire	case
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burned	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 devour	punct
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 land	nmod:poss
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 devour	dislocated
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 land	punct
16	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 devour	nsubj
17	devour	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 desolate	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 devour	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 presence	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 presence	nmod:poss
21	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 devour	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 desolate	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 desolate	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 desolate	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 desolate	cop
26	desolate	desolate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 devour	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 overthrown	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 overthrown	mark
29	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 desolate	advcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 floods	case
31	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 overthrown	obl:agent
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 desolate	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your country			desolate property	tree rules
2	burn	present · passive		your cities		with fire	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fire=Instrument
3	devour	present	strangers	country	your presence	your land dislocated	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	present	country			desolate property	tree rules
5	overthrow	participle	country not said here				tree rules

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

אַרְצְכֶ֣ם שְׁמָמָ֔ה עָרֵיכֶ֖ם שְׂרֻפ֣וֹת אֵ֑שׁ אַדְמַתְכֶ֗ם לְנֶגְדְּכֶם֙ זָרִים֙ אֹכְלִ֣ים אֹתָ֔הּ וּשְׁמָמָ֖ה כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥ת זָרִֽים׃

Isaiah 1:7: 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:7 of Mova's parse database.

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