Isaiah 38:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward.
Who acts: I, eyes · What happens: chatter, moan, fail, look
This is Isaiah 38:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (I, eyes), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 swallow | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 swallow | det |
| 3 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chatter | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 crane | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crane | det |
| 6 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swallow | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallow | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 chatter | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 chatter | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 chatter | nsubj |
| 11 | chatter | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 moan | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 moan | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 moan | aux |
| 15 | moan | moan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 chatter | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 dove | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dove | det |
| 18 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 moan | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 fail | punct |
| 20 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Plur Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fail | nsubj |
| 22 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 moan | parataxis |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 looking | mark |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 fail | advcl |
| 25 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 24 looking | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 chatter | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chatter | present · do-support | I | like a swallow or a crane | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | moan | present · do-support | I | as a dove | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fail | present | mine eyes | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | mine eyes not said here | upward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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
כְּס֤וּס עָגוּר֙ כֵּ֣ן אֲצַפְצֵ֔ף אֶהְגֶּ֖ה כַּיּוֹנָ֑ה דַּלּ֤וּ עֵינַי֙ לַמָּר֔וֹם אֲדֹנָ֖י עָֽשְׁקָה־לִּ֥י עָרְבֵֽנִי׃
Isaiah 38:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward.
- O LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:817 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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