Isaiah 40:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?
Who acts: ye · What happens: compare · To what, where: likeness
This is Isaiah 40:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (ye), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 compare | cc |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 likeness | det |
| 3 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compare | obj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 compare | aux |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 compare | nsubj |
| 6 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 Him | case |
| 8 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 compare | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | future | ye | what likeness | unto God | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent likeness=Patient |
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
וְאֶל־מִ֖י תְּדַמְּי֣וּן אֵ֑ל וּמַה־דְּמ֖וּת תַּ֥עַרְכוּ לֽוֹ׃
Isaiah 40:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- To whom then will ye liken God?
- Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ISA:855 of Mova's parse database.
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