Isaiah 40:7 · JPS 1917

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the LORD bloweth upon it — surely the people is grass.

Who acts: grass, flower, breath, people · What happens: wither, fade, blow, be · To what, where: grass

This is Isaiah 40:7 · 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 (grass, flower, breath, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 withereth	nsubj
3	withereth	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fadeth	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fadeth	nsubj
7	fadeth	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 withereth	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 bloweth	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 bloweth	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 breath	det
11	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bloweth	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 LORD	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 LORD	det
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 breath	nmod
15	bloweth	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fadeth	advcl
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bloweth	obl
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 grass	punct
19	surely	surely	ADV	_	23 grass	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grass	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 grass	cop
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 withereth	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 withereth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wither	present	the grass			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fade	present	the flower			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	blow	present	the breath of the LORD		upon flower	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	is a	present	the people	grass	surely property	tree rules

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

יָבֵ֤שׁ חָצִיר֙ נָ֣בֵֽל צִ֔יץ כִּ֛י ר֥וּחַ יְהוָ֖ה נָ֣שְׁבָה בּ֑וֹ אָכֵ֥ן חָצִ֖יר הָעָֽם׃

Isaiah 40:7: 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:842 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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