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title: Isaiah 30:8 (JPS 1917) — Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever. Who acts: you, arrogancy. Isaiah 30:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 30:8 · JPS 1917

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Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

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**Who acts:** you, arrogancy · **What happens:** go, write, inscribe, be, come · **To what, where:** arrogancy, tablet, book

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This is Isaiah 30:8 · 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 (you, arrogancy), 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:626
# text = Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	inscribe	inscribe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ever	ever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	ever	ever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed hedge=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | infinitive | you *not said here* | arrogancy |  | a tablet | before lioness |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tablet=Destination |
| 3 | **inscribe** | infinitive | you *not said here* | arrogancy |  | a book |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in book=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | may | arrogancy |  |  |  | for the time |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for ever and ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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עַתָּ֗ה בּ֣וֹא כָתְבָ֥הּ עַל־ל֛וּחַ אִתָּ֖ם וְעַל־סֵ֣פֶר חֻקָּ֑הּ וּתְהִי֙ לְי֣וֹם אַחֲר֔וֹן לָעַ֖ד עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃

[Isaiah 30:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.8/)

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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:626` 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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