--- title: Isaiah 8:8 (JPS 1917) — And he shall sweep through Judah overflowing as he passeth through h… · tree and pragmatics description: And he shall sweep through Judah overflowing as he passeth through he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. Who acts: LORD, stretching. 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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 (LORD, stretching), 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:170 # text = And he shall sweep through Judah overflowing as he passeth through he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 sweep sweep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 overflowing overflow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 passeth pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 through through ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 stretching stretch NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 23 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 breadth breadth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 O o INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ _ 36 Immanuel Immanuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 vocative _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sweep** | shall | LORD | | | Judah | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through judah=Trajectory | | 2 | **overflow** | gerund | LORD *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pass through** | present | LORD | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **reach** | shall | LORD | | | | | to the neck | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fill** | shall | the stretching of LORD's wings | the breadth of thy land | | | | Immanuel *vocative* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent breadth=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} וְחָלַ֤ף בִּֽיהוּדָה֙ שָׁטַ֣ף וְעָבַ֔ר עַד־צַוָּ֖אר יַגִּ֑יעַ וְהָיָה֙ מֻטּ֣וֹת כְּנָפָ֔יו מְלֹ֥א רֹֽחַב־אַרְצְךָ֖ עִמָּ֥נוּ אֵֽל עִמָּ֥נוּ אֵֽל׃ס [Isaiah 8:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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