Isaiah 40:15 · JPS 1917

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold the isles are as a mote in weight.

Who acts: nations, isles · What happens: be, count · To what, where: weight

This is Isaiah 40:15 · 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 (nations, isles), 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	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	8 drop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Behold	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nations	det
4	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drop	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drop	cop
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 drop	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drop	det
8	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bucket	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bucket	det
11	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drop	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 counted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 counted	cc
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 counted	aux:pass
15	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 drop	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 dust	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dust	det
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dust	amod
19	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 counted	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 balance	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 balance	det
22	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dust	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 mote	punct
24	behold	behold	INTJ	_	30 mote	discourse
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 isles	det
26	isles	isle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 mote	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 mote	cop
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 mote	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mote	det
30	mote	mote	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drop	parataxis
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 weight	case
32	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mote	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drop	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the nations		as a drop; of a bucket	tree rules
2	count	present · passive	the nations not said here		as the small dust of the balance	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: as dust=Attribute
3	is	present	the isles	weight	as a mote	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

הֵ֤ן גּוֹיִם֙ כְּמַ֣ר מִדְּלִ֔י וּכְשַׁ֥חַק מֹאזְנַ֖יִם נֶחְשָׁ֑בוּ הֵ֥ן אִיִּ֖ים כַּדַּ֥ק יִטּֽוֹל׃

Isaiah 40:15: 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:851 of Mova's parse database.

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