Isaiah 37:9 · JPS 1917
And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia: 'He is come out to fight against thee.' And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying:
Who acts: king · What happens: hear, say, come out, fight, send · To what, where: rumour, messengers, Hezekiah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Isaiah 37:9 · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | xcomp |
| 5 | concerning | concerning | ADP | _ | 6 Tirhakah | case |
| 6 | Tirhakah | Tirhakah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tirhakah | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ethiopia | case |
| 9 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 say | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 come | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fight | mark |
| 17 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | advcl |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 thee | case |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 fight | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sent | cc |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 heard | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 heard | nsubj |
| 25 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sent | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 heard | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 heard | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sent | nsubj |
| 29 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 30 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sent | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Hezekiah | case |
| 32 | Hezekiah | Hezekiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sent | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 saying | punct |
| 34 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 sent | advcl |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | king not said here | concerning Tirhakah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come out | present · passive | king | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | king not said here | against thee | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | king | rumour | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | send | past | king | messengers | Hezekiah | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to hezekiah=Destination | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert | gerund | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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
וַיִּשְׁמַ֗ע עַל־תִּרְהָ֤קָה מֶֽלֶךְ־כּוּשׁ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יָצָ֖א לְהִלָּחֵ֣ם אִתָּ֑ךְ וַיִּשְׁמַע֙ וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל־חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ לֵאמֹֽר׃
Isaiah 37:9: 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:769 of Mova's parse database.
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