--- title: Isaiah 25:8 (JPS 1917) — He will swallow up death for ever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away t… · tree and pragmatics description: He will swallow up death for ever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of His people will He take away from off all the earth; for the LORD hath spoken it. Who acts: LORD, Lord GOD. 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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, Lord GOD), 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:518 # text = He will swallow up death for ever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of His people will He take away from off all the earth; for the LORD hath spoken it. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 ever ever ADV RB _ 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 wipe wipe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 15 away away ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 off off ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 reproach reproach NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 off off ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 38 for for SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **swallow up** | future | LORD | death | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient | | 2 | **wipe away** | future | the Lord GOD | tears | | all faces | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from face=Trajectory | | 3 | **take away** | future | LORD | the reproach of LORD's people | | all earth | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent reproach=Theme from earth=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the LORD | reproach | | | | | tree rules | 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} בִּלַּ֤ע הַמָּ֙וֶת֙ לָנֶ֔צַח וּמָחָ֨ה אֲדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה דִּמְעָ֖ה מֵעַ֣ל כָּל־פָּנִ֑ים וְחֶרְפַּ֣ת עַמּ֗וֹ יָסִיר֙ מֵעַ֣ל כָּל־הָאָ֔רֶץ כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבֵּֽר׃פ [Isaiah 25:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:518` 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 25:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.517/) - next →: [Isaiah 25:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.519/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 25:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.8/)