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title: Isaiah 58:2 (JPS 1917) — Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways; as a nation tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways; as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of Me righteous ordinances, they delight to draw near unto God. Who acts: people, nation. Isaiah 58:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Isaiah 58:2 · JPS 1917

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Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways; as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of Me righteous ordinances, they delight to draw near unto God.

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**Who acts:** people, nation · **What happens:** seek, delight, know, do, not forsake, ask · **To what, where:** Me, ways, righteousness, ordinance, righteous ordinances, God

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This is Isaiah 58:2 · 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 (people, nation), 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:1258
# text = Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways; as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of Me righteous ordinances, they delight to draw near unto God.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	delight	delight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	forsook	forsake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ordinance	ordinance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	delight	delight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	near	near	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present | people | Me |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **delight** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | My ways |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | past | a nation | righteousness |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteousness=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **forsake** | past | a nation *not said here* | the ordinance of people's God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | people | righteous ordinances |  |  |  | as a nation; of Me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ordinance=Recipient |
| 7 | **delight** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **draw** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto God; near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **ordain** |  |  | people's God |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וְאוֹתִ֗י י֥וֹם יוֹם֙ יִדְרֹשׁ֔וּן וְדַ֥עַת דְּרָכַ֖י יֶחְפָּצ֑וּן כְּג֞וֹי אֲשֶׁר־צְדָקָ֣ה עָשָׂ֗ה וּמִשְׁפַּ֤ט אֱלֹהָיו֙ לֹ֣א עָזָ֔ב יִשְׁאָל֙וּנִי֙ מִשְׁפְּטֵי־צֶ֔דֶק קִרְבַ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֖ים יֶחְפָּצֽוּן׃

[Isaiah 58:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.2/)

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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:1258` 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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