Isaiah 40:17 · JPS 1917
All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.
Who acts: nations, Lebanon · What happens: be, account · To what, where: nations
This is Isaiah 40:17 · 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, Lebanon), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 nations | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nations | det |
| 3 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 nothing | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nothing | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 nothing | case |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 Him | case |
| 8 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nothing | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 accounted | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 accounted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 accounted | aux:pass |
| 12 | accounted | account | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 nothing | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Him | case |
| 14 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 accounted | obl:agent |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 things | case |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 accounted | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 nought | case |
| 18 | nought | nought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 things | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 vanity | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 vanity | cc |
| 21 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 things | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all nations | before Lebanon | as nothing | tree rules | |||
| 2 | account | present · passive | Lebanon | nations = nation | as things of nought and vanity | 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
כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם כְּאַ֣יִן נֶגְדּ֑וֹ מֵאֶ֥פֶס וָתֹ֖הוּ נֶחְשְׁבוּ־לֽוֹ׃
Isaiah 40:17: 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:853 of Mova's parse database.
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