Isaiah 37:8 · JPS 1917
So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
Who acts: Rab, king · What happens: return, find, war, hear, depart · To what, where: king, Lachish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Isaiah 37:8 · 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 (Rab, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Rab | Rab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rab | punct |
| 4 | shakeh | shakeh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rab | flat |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Assyria | case |
| 12 | Assyria | Assyria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | nmod |
| 13 | warring | war | VERB | VerbForm=Part | 8 found | xcomp |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 Libnah | case |
| 15 | Libnah | Libnah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 warring | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 heard | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | aux |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 returned | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 departed | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 departed | aux:pass |
| 24 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 heard | ccomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Lachish | case |
| 26 | Lachish | Lachish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 departed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Rab | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | Rab not said here | the king of Assyria | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent king=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | war | gerund | the king of Assyria not said here | against Libnah | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect | king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | depart | past · passive | king | Lachish | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location |
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
וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ רַב־שָׁקֵ֔ה וַיִּמְצָא֙ אֶת־מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר נִלְחָ֖ם עַל־לִבְנָ֑ה כִּ֣י שָׁמַ֔ע כִּ֥י נָסַ֖ע מִלָּכִֽישׁ׃
Isaiah 37:8: 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:768 of Mova's parse database.
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