Isaiah 39:3 · JPS 1917

Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: 'They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.'

Who acts: Isaiah, men, Hezekiah · What happens: come, say · To what, where: king Hezekiah, far country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Isaiah 39:3 · 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, men, Hezekiah), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Isaiah	Isaiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prophet	det
5	prophet	prophet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Isaiah	appos
6	unto	unto	ADP	_	7 king	case
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Hezekiah	compound
8	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
12	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 said	obj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 men	det
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 whence	case
23	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	24 came	obl
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
26	unto	unto	ADP	_	27 thee	case
27	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 came	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
30	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
31	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
35	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 come	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 said	ccomp
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 country	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 country	det
40	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 country	amod
41	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
42	unto	unto	ADP	_	43 me	case
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 come	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Babylon	punct
45	even	even	ADV	_	47 Babylon	advmod
46	from	from	ADP	_	47 Babylon	case
47	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Isaiah	king Hezekiah		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Isaiah not said here				unto Hezekiah	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	this men					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	come	past	men = man				unto thee	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from whence=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	Hezekiah					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come	present · passive	men = man		a far country		unto me; from Babylon	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location from babylon=Destination

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

וַיָּבֹא֙ יְשַׁעְיָ֣הוּ הַנָּבִ֔יא אֶל־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלָ֜יו מָ֥ה אָמְר֣וּ ׀ הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה וּמֵאַ֙יִן֙ יָבֹ֣אוּ אֵלֶ֔יךָ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ חִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ מֵאֶ֧רֶץ רְחוֹקָ֛ה בָּ֥אוּ אֵלַ֖י מִבָּבֶֽל׃

Isaiah 39:3: 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:830 of Mova's parse database.

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