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title: Isaiah 58:12 (JPS 1917) — And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places, tho… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places, thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. Who acts: bones, thou. Isaiah 58:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Isaiah 58:12 · JPS 1917

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And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places, thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.

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**Who acts:** bones, thou · **What happens:** be, build, raise up, call, dwell · **To what, where:** old waste places, foundations, thou · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 58:12 · 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 (bones, 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:1271
# text = And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places, thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	acl:relcl	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	foundations	foundation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
30	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	repairer	repairer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	breach	breach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	restorer	restorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall |  |  |  |  |  | of thee | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | shall | bones *= bone* | the old waste places |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=Product |
| 3 | **raise up** | shall | thou | the foundations of many generations |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foundation=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | shall · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **dwell** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וּבָנ֤וּ מִמְּךָ֙ חָרְב֣וֹת עוֹלָ֔ם מוֹסְדֵ֥י דוֹר־וָד֖וֹר תְּקוֹמֵ֑ם וְקֹרָ֤א לְךָ֙ גֹּדֵ֣ר פֶּ֔רֶץ מְשֹׁבֵ֥ב נְתִיב֖וֹת לָשָֽׁבֶת׃

[Isaiah 58:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.12/)

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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:1271` 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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