--- title: Isaiah 58:8 (JPS 1917) — Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing sha… · tree and pragmatics description: Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of the LORD shall be thy rearward. Who acts: light, healing, righteousness, glory. 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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 (light, healing, righteousness, glory), 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:1267 # text = Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of the LORD shall be thy rearward. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD _ 5 aux _ _ 3 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 forth forth ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD _ 15 aux _ _ 15 spring spring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 forth forth ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 speedily speedily ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 righteousness righteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD _ 23 aux _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 24 before before ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD _ 35 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 34 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 rearward rearward NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | shall | thy light | | | | then; morning | forth *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **spring** | shall | thy healing | | | | | forth, speedily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | shall | thy righteousness | | | thee | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before thou=Location | | 4 | **is a** | shall | the glory of the LORD | thy rearward | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **light** | | thy | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **heal** | | thy | | | | | | nom healing «process intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **glory** | | the LORD | | | | | | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent | 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} אָ֣ז יִבָּקַ֤ע כַּשַּׁ֙חַר֙ אוֹרֶ֔ךָ וַאֲרֻכָתְךָ֖ מְהֵרָ֣ה תִצְמָ֑ח וְהָלַ֤ךְ לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙ צִדְקֶ֔ךָ כְּב֥וֹד יְהוָ֖ה יַאַסְפֶֽךָ׃ [Isaiah 58:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1267` 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 58:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1266/) - next →: [Isaiah 58:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1268/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 58:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.8/)