Isaiah 40:24 · JPS 1917

Scarce are they planted, scarce are they sown, scarce hath their stock taken root in the earth; when He bloweth upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

Who acts: stock, judges, whirlwind · What happens: plant, sow, take, blow, wither, take away · To what, where: judges, root, earth

This is Isaiah 40:24 · 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 (stock, judges, whirlwind), 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	Scarce	scarce	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 planted	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 planted	aux:pass
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planted	nsubj:pass
4	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scarce	punct
6	scarce	scarce	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 sown	advmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sown	aux:pass
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sown	nsubj:pass
9	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 planted	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hath	punct
11	scarce	scarce	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 hath	advmod
12	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stock	nmod:poss
14	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	nsubj
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 planted	conj
16	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 earth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 earth	det
19	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 wither	punct
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 bloweth	mark
22	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bloweth	nsubj
23	bloweth	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 wither	advcl
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bloweth	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wither	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wither	nsubj
28	wither	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 planted	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 taketh	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 taketh	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 whirlwind	det
32	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taketh	nsubj
33	taketh	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 wither	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 taketh	obj
35	away	away	ADV	_	33 taketh	advmod
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 stubble	case
37	stubble	stubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taketh	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 planted	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	plant	present · passive		judges = judge		scarce property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	sow	present · passive		judges = judge		scarce property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	take	present · perfect	judges's stock	root	the earth		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent root=Value in earth=Location
4	blow	present	stock			upon judges = judge	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	wither	present	judges = judge				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	take away	present	the whirlwind	judges = judge		as stubble; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	stock		judges = judge				nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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

אַ֣ף בַּל־נִטָּ֗עוּ אַ֚ף בַּל־זֹרָ֔עוּ אַ֛ף בַּל־שֹׁרֵ֥שׁ בָּאָ֖רֶץ גִּזְעָ֑ם וְגַם־נָשַׁ֤ף בָּהֶם֙ וַיִּבָ֔שׁוּ וּסְעָרָ֖ה כַּקַּ֥שׁ תִּשָּׂאֵֽם׃ס

Isaiah 40:24: 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:863 of Mova's parse database.

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