Isaiah 39:1 · JPS 1917
At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
Who acts: Merodach baladan, baladan · What happens: send, hear, be, recover · To what, where: letter, Hezekiah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Isaiah 39:1 · 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 (Merodach baladan, baladan), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 4 | Merodach | Merodach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 baladan | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Merodach | punct |
| 6 | baladan | baladan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 baladan | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Baladan | case |
| 10 | Baladan | Baladan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 king | punct |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 baladan | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Babylon | case |
| 14 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 king | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 king | punct |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 letter | det |
| 18 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 present | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 present | det |
| 21 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 letter | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Hezekiah | case |
| 23 | Hezekiah | Hezekiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 heard | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 heard | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 heard | nsubj |
| 27 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | advcl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 sick | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sick | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 sick | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 sick | cop |
| 32 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 heard | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 recovered | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 recovered | cc |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 recovered | aux:pass |
| 36 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 sick | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Merodach baladan | a letter and a present | Hezekiah | time | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to hezekiah=Destination | ||
| 2 | hear | past | baladan | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | baladan | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | recover | past · passive | baladan not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
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
בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֡וא שָׁלַ֡ח מְרֹדַ֣כְ ֠בַּלְאֲדָן מְרֹדַ֣כְ ֠בַּלְאֲדָן בֶּֽן־בַּלְאֲדָ֧ן מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֛ל סְפָרִ֥ים וּמִנְחָ֖ה אֶל־חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ וַיִּשְׁמַ֕ע כִּ֥י חָלָ֖ה וַֽיֶּחֱזָֽק׃
Isaiah 39:1: 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:828 of Mova's parse database.
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