Isaiah 41:17 · JPS 1917

The poor and needy seek water and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Who acts: poor, none, tongue, I · What happens: seek, be, fail, answer, not forsake · To what, where: water, hills

This is Isaiah 41:17 · 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 (poor, none, tongue, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poor	det
2	poor	poor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seek	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 needy	cc
4	needy	needy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 poor	conj
5	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seek	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 is	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seek	conj
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 is	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 faileth	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 faileth	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tongue	nmod:poss
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 faileth	nsubj
15	faileth	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seek	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 thirst	case
17	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 faileth	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 answer	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 answer	nsubj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 LORD	det
21	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 I	appos
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 answer	aux
23	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seek	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 answer	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 forsake	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 forsake	nsubj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 God	det
28	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 I	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Israel	case
30	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 God	nmod
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 forsake	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 forsake	advmod
33	forsake	forsake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 answer	parataxis
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 forsake	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seek	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	present	the poor	water				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	be	present	none			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fail	present	hills's tongue				for thirst	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert	future	I		hills = hill			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
5	not forsake	future	I	hills = hill				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

הָעֲנִיִּ֨ים וְהָאֶבְיוֹנִ֜ים מְבַקְשִׁ֥ים מַ֙יִם֙ וָאַ֔יִן לְשׁוֹנָ֖ם בַּצָּמָ֣א נָשָׁ֑תָּה אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ אֶעֱנֵ֔ם אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֥א אֶעֶזְבֵֽם׃

Isaiah 41:17: 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:892 of Mova's parse database.

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