--- title: Isaiah 52:7 (JPS 1917) — How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger of go… · tree and pragmatics description: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger of good tidings, that announceth peace, the harbinger of good tidings, that announceth salvation; that saith unto Zion: 'Thy God reigneth!' Who acts: feet, good tidings, harbinger, God. 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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 (feet, good tidings, harbinger, God), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:ISA:1163 # text = How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger of good tidings, that announceth peace, the harbinger of good tidings, that announceth salvation; that saith unto Zion: 'Thy God reigneth!' 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 upon upon ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 tidings tiding NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 announceth announce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 harbinger harbinger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 tidings tiding NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 announceth announce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 28 salvation salvation NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 32 unto unto ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Zion Zion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 36 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 reigneth reign VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the feet of the messenger of good tidings | | | | | upon the mountains; beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | present | good tidings | peace | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | | 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | present | the harbinger of good tidings | salvation | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salvation=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the harbinger of good tidings | | | | | unto Zion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **reign** | present | Thy God | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **harbinger** | | | good tidings | | | | | nom harbinger «communication transitive»: of=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 {#hebrew} מַה־נָּאו֨וּ עַל־הֶהָרִ֜ים רַגְלֵ֣י מְבַשֵּׂ֗ר מַשְׁמִ֧יעַ שָׁל֛וֹם מְבַשֵּׂ֥ר ט֖וֹב מַשְׁמִ֣יעַ יְשׁוּעָ֑ה אֹמֵ֥ר לְצִיּ֖וֹן מָלַ֥ךְ אֱלֹהָֽיִךְ׃ [Isaiah 52:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.52.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1163` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Isaiah 52:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1162/) - next →: [Isaiah 52:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1164/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 52:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.52.7/)