--- title: Isaiah 34:11 — But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the owl and th… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein; and He shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. Who acts: pelican, owl, smoke. 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The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — pelican, owl, smoke — and what happens in the verse to land, line, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 66 chapters of Isaiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וִירֵשׁ֙וּהָ֙ קָאַ֣ת וְקִפּ֔וֹד וְיַנְשׁ֥וֹף וְעֹרֵ֖ב יִשְׁכְּנוּ־בָ֑הּ וְנָטָ֥ה עָלֶ֛יהָ קַֽו־תֹ֖הוּ וְאַבְנֵי־בֹֽהוּ׃ [But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein; and He shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.718/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:ISA:659 # text = וִירֵשׁ֙וּהָ֙ קָאַ֣ת וְקִפּ֔וֹד וְיַנְשׁ֥וֹף וְעֹרֵ֖ב יִשְׁכְּנוּ־בָ֑הּ וְנָטָ֥ה עָלֶ֛יהָ קַֽו־תֹ֖הוּ וְאַבְנֵי־בֹֽהוּ׃ # verse = ISA.34.11 1-3 וִירֵשׁ֙וּהָ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וִ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_34:11!1|MId=o230340110011|Strong=2050b 2 ירֵשׁ֙וּ יָרַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they|Ref=ISA_34:11!1|MId=o230340110012|Strong=3423|Frame=A1:230340110013;A0:230340110021;230340110032;|Type=weqatal 3 הָ֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ Gloss=will.take.possession.of.it|Ref=ISA_34:11!1|MId=o230340110013|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 4 קָאַ֣ת קָאַת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=desert.owl|Ref=ISA_34:11!2|MId=o230340110021|Strong=6893 5-6 וְקִפּ֔וֹד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 6 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_34:11!3|MId=o230340110031|Strong=2050b 6 קִפּ֔וֹד קִפֹּד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 conj _ Gloss=hedgehog|Ref=ISA_34:11!3|MId=o230340110032|Strong=7090 7-8 וְיַנְשׁ֥וֹף _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_34:11!4|MId=o230340110041|Strong=2050b 8 יַנְשׁ֥וֹף יַנְשׁוּף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=great.owl|Ref=ISA_34:11!4|MId=o230340110042|Strong=3244 9-10 וְעֹרֵ֖ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_34:11!5|MId=o230340110051|Strong=2050b 10 עֹרֵ֖ב עֹרֵב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 conj _ Gloss=raven|Ref=ISA_34:11!5|MId=o230340110052|Strong=6158 11 יִשְׁכְּנוּ־ שָׁכַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.will.dwell|Ref=ISA_34:11!6|MId=o230340110061|Strong=7931|Frame=A0:230340110042;230340110052;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 12-13 בָ֑הּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 ב בְּ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=ISA_34:11!7|MId=o230340110071|Strong=0871a 13 ָ֑הּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ Gloss=it|Ref=ISA_34:11!7|MId=o230340110072|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 14-15 וְנָטָ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_34:11!8|MId=o230340110081|Strong=2050b 15 נָטָ֥ה נָטָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.will.stretch.out|Ref=ISA_34:11!8|MId=o230340110082|Strong=5186|Frame=A0:230340080042;A1:230340110101;230340110122;|Type=weqatal 16-17 עָלֶ֛יהָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 עָלֶ֛י עַל ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=ISA_34:11!9|MId=o230340110091|Strong=5921 17 הָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ Gloss=it|Ref=ISA_34:11!9|MId=o230340110092|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 18 קַֽו־ קַו NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 obj _ Gloss=a.measuring-line|Ref=ISA_34:11!10|MId=o230340110101|Strong=6957|SpaceAfter=No 19 תֹ֖הוּ תֹּהוּ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.formlessness|Ref=ISA_34:11!11|MId=o230340110111|Strong=8414 20-21 וְאַבְנֵי־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 21 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_34:11!12|MId=o230340110121|Strong=2050b 21 אַבְנֵי־ אֶבֶן NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 18 conj _ Gloss=stones|Ref=ISA_34:11!12|MId=o230340110122|Strong=0068 22 בֹֽהוּ בֹּהוּ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 21 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.emptiness|Ref=ISA_34:11!13|MId=o230340110131|Strong=0922|SpaceAfter=No 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=ISA_34:11!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ירֵשׁוּ *they* | weqatal · qal | קָאַת *desert owl* + קִפּוֹד *hedgehog* | הָ *will take possession of it* | | | | יִשְׁכְּנוּ־ *they will dwell* | yiqtol · qal | יַנְשׁוֹף *great owl* + עֹרֵב *raven* | | | | | נָטָה *he will stretch out* | weqatal · qal | | קַֽו־ *a measuring-line* + אַבְנֵי־ *stones* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos} וְיַחְסְנוּנָהּ קָתִין וְקִפּוֹדִין וְקִפוֹפִין וְעוֹרְבִין יִשְׁרָן בָּה וְיִתְנְגִיד עֲלָהּ חוּט דְחוּרְבָּנָא וּמִשְׁקַלְתָּא דְצַדְיוּתָא: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein; and He shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.718/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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