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title: Isaiah 57:8 (JPS 1917) — And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy symbol; for… · tree and pragmatics
description: And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy symbol; for thou hast uncovered, and art gone up from Me, thou hast enlarged thy bed, and chosen thee of them whose bed thou lovedst, whose hand thou sawest. Who acts: thou. Isaiah 57:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Isaiah 57:8 · JPS 1917

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And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy symbol; for thou hast uncovered, and art gone up from Me, thou hast enlarged thy bed, and chosen thee of them whose bed thou lovedst, whose hand thou sawest.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** set up, uncover, go up, enlarge, choose, love · **To what, where:** symbol, doors, bed, thee, hand

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This is Isaiah 57:8 · 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 (thou), 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:1240
# text = And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy symbol; for thou hast uncovered, and art gone up from Me, thou hast enlarged thy bed, and chosen thee of them whose bed thou lovedst, whose hand thou sawest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
28	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	enlarged	enlarge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
30	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
35	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
38	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
40	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nsubj	_	_
41	lovedst	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
45	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	46	nsubj	_	_
46	sawest	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | present · perfect | thou | thy symbol |  | the doors and the posts |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent symbol=Theme behind door=Destination |
| 2 | **uncover** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go up** | present · passive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from Me | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **enlarge** | present · perfect | thou | thy bed |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
| 5 | **choose** | participle | thou *not said here* | thee |  |  |  | of beds *= bed* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 6 | **love** | past | thou | bed |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus |
| 7 | **see** | past | thou | hand |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus |

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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}

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וְאַחַ֤ר הַדֶּ֙לֶת֙ וְהַמְּזוּזָ֔ה שַׂ֖מְתְּ זִכְרוֹנֵ֑ךְ כִּ֣י מֵאִתִּ֞י גִּלִּ֣ית וַֽתַּעֲלִ֗י הִרְחַ֤בְתְּ מִשְׁכָּבֵךְ֙ וַתִּכְרָת־לָ֣ךְ מֵהֶ֔ם אָהַ֥בְתְּ מִשְׁכָּבָ֖ם יָ֥ד חָזִֽית׃

[Isaiah 57:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.8/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1240` 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.

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