Isaiah 40:12 · JPS 1917

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

What happens: measure, mete out, comprehend, weigh · To what, where: waters, hollow, heaven, dust, measure, mountains

This is Isaiah 40:12 · 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: 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	3 measured	nsubj
2	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 measured	aux
3	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 waters	det
5	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 measured	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hollow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hollow	det
8	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 measured	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hollow	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 meted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 meted	cc
14	meted	mete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 measured	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 meted	compound:prt
16	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meted	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 span	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 span	det
19	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meted	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 comprehended	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 comprehended	cc
22	comprehended	comprehend	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 measured	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dust	det
24	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comprehended	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 earth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 earth	det
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dust	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 measure	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 measure	det
30	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comprehended	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 weighed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 weighed	cc
33	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 measured	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mountains	det
35	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 weighed	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 scales	case
37	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 weighed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hills	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hills	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hills	det
41	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 mountains	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 balance	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 balance	det
44	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 weighed	obl
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 measured	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	measure	present · perfect	the waters	the hollow of God's hand		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme water=Value
2	mete out	participle	heaven		with the span	tree rules
3	comprehend	past	the dust of the earth	a measure		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dust=Stimulus
4	weigh	past	the mountains and the hills	scales	in a balance	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme mountain=Value

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

מִֽי־מָדַ֨ד בְּשָׁעֳל֜וֹ מַ֗יִם וְשָׁמַ֙יִם֙ בַּזֶּ֣רֶת תִּכֵּ֔ן וְכָ֥ל בַּשָּׁלִ֖שׁ עֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֑רֶץ וְשָׁקַ֤ל בַּפֶּ֙לֶס֙ הָרִ֔ים וּגְבָע֖וֹת בְּמֹאזְנָֽיִם׃

Isaiah 40:12: 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:847 of Mova's parse database.

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