Isaiah 36:21 · JPS 1917
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying: 'Answer him not.'
Who acts: Hamath, commandment, king · What happens: hold, not answer, be, say, pacify, command · To what, where: peace, word, God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Isaiah 36:21 · 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 (Hamath, commandment, king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 held | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 peace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 answered | cc |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | iobj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 answered | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 was | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 commandment | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 21 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 was | advcl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Answer | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Answer | punct |
| 24 | Answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 saying | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 Answer | obj |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 Answer | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 Answer | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Answer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Hamath | Hamath's peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | past | Hamath not said here | a word | God | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme word=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | be | past | the king's commandment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the king's commandment not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not answer speech: assert | infinitive | God | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | pacify | Hamath | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | command | the king | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וַֽיַּחֲרִ֔ישׁוּ וְלֹֽא־עָנ֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ דָּבָ֑ר כִּֽי־מִצְוַ֨ת הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ הִ֛יא לֵאמֹ֖ר לֹ֥א תַעֲנֻֽהוּ׃
Isaiah 36:21: 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:759 of Mova's parse database.
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