Isaiah 40:22 · JPS 1917

It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

Who acts: earth, inhabitants · What happens: be, sit, stretch out, spread out, dwell · To what, where: goldsmith, circle, heavens, inhabitants

This is Isaiah 40:22 · 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 (earth, inhabitants), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 He	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 He	cop
3	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sitteth	nsubj
5	sitteth	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 He	acl:relcl
6	above	above	ADP	_	8 circle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 circle	det
8	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitteth	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 circle	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grasshoppers	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grasshoppers	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 inhabitants	det
15	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grasshoppers	nsubj
16	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	15 inhabitants	advmod
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 grasshoppers	cop
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 grasshoppers	case
19	grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 He	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stretcheth	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 stretcheth	nsubj
22	stretcheth	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 He	acl:relcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 stretcheth	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 heavens	det
25	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stretcheth	obj
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 curtain	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 curtain	det
28	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stretcheth	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 spreadeth	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 spreadeth	cc
31	spreadeth	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 stretcheth	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 spreadeth	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	31 spreadeth	compound:prt
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 tent	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tent	det
36	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spreadeth	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 dwell	mark
38	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 tent	acl
39	in	in	ADP	_	38 dwell	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 He	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	earth	goldsmith			tree rules
2	sit	present			the circle of the earth		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above circle=Location
3	is	present	the inhabitants			as grasshoppers	tree rules
4	stretch out	present		the heavens		as a curtain	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heaven=Patient
5	spread out	present		inhabitants = inhabitant		as a tent	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
6	dwell	to-infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

הַיֹּשֵׁב֙ עַל־ח֣וּג הָאָ֔רֶץ וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ כַּחֲגָבִ֑ים הַנּוֹטֶ֤ה כַדֹּק֙ שָׁמַ֔יִם וַיִּמְתָּחֵ֥ם כָּאֹ֖הֶל לָשָֽׁבֶת׃

Isaiah 40:22: 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:861 of Mova's parse database.

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