--- title: Isaiah 26:9 (JPS 1917) — With my soul have I desired Thee in the night; yea, with my spirit w… · tree and pragmatics description: With my soul have I desired Thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me have I sought Thee earnestly; for when Thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. Who acts: I, judgments, inhabitants, Thy. 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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 (I, judgments, inhabitants, Thy), 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:531 # text = With my soul have I desired Thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me have I sought Thee earnestly; for when Thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 desired desire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 12 yea yea INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 17 within within ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sought seek VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 22 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 obj _ _ 23 earnestly earnestly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 26 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 27 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 judgments judgment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 advcl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 40 righteousness righteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **desire** | present · perfect | I | Thee | | | night | with my soul | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thou=Theme | | 2 | **seek** | present · perfect | I | Thee | | | | with my spirit within me; earnestly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Thy judgments | | | the earth | | | tree rules | | 4 | **learn** | present | the inhabitants of the world | righteousness | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteousness=Topic | | 5 | **judge** | | Thy | | | | | | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=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} נַפְשִׁ֤י אִוִּיתִ֙יךָ֙ בַּלַּ֔יְלָה אַף־רוּחִ֥י בְקִרְבִּ֖י אֲשַֽׁחֲרֶ֑ךָּ כִּ֞י כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר מִשְׁפָּטֶ֙יךָ֙ לָאָ֔רֶץ צֶ֥דֶק לָמְד֖וּ יֹשְׁבֵ֥י תֵבֵֽל׃ [Isaiah 26:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:531` 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 26:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.530/) - next →: [Isaiah 26:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.532/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 26:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.9/)