Isaiah 38:21 · JPS 1917

And Isaiah said: 'Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.'

Who acts: Isaiah, songs · What happens: say, let, take, lay, recover · To what, where: songs, cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Isaiah 38:21 · 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 (Isaiah, songs), 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 said	cc
2	Isaiah	Isaiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
6	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Let	obj
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Let	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cake	det
10	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 figs	case
12	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cake	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
15	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Let	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lay	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 plaster	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 plaster	det
19	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 boil	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boil	det
22	boil	boil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 recover	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 recover	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 recover	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 recover	aux
27	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Let	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Isaiah			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		songs = song		tree rules
3	take	infinitive	songs = song not said here	a cake of figs		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
4	lay	infinitive		cake	for a plaster; upon the boil	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Result for plaster=Beneficiary
5	recover	shall	Isaiah			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְשַׁעְיָ֔הוּ יִשְׂא֖וּ דְּבֶ֣לֶת תְּאֵנִ֑ים וְיִמְרְח֥וּ עַֽל־הַשְּׁחִ֖ין וְיֶֽחִי׃

Isaiah 38:21: 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:826 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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