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title: Isaiah 39:8 (JPS 1917) — Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah: 'Good is the word of the LORD which… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah: 'Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken.' He said moreover: 'If but there shall be peace and truth in my days.' Who acts: Hezekiah, word, thou, peace. Isaiah 39:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 39:8 · JPS 1917

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Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah: 'Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken.' He said moreover: 'If but there shall be peace and truth in my days.'

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**Who acts:** Hezekiah, word, thou, peace · **What happens:** say, be, speak, word · **To what, where:** word, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 39:8 · 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 (Hezekiah, word, thou, peace), 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:835
# text = Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah: 'Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken.' He said moreover: 'If but there shall be peace and truth in my days.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Isaiah	Isaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
21	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
26	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	but	but	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
31	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hezekiah |  |  |  | then | unto Isaiah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the word of the LORD |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | thou | the word of the LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hezekiah |  |  |  |  | moreover *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | peace and truth |  |  | there | day | but *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ אֶֽל־יְשַׁעְיָ֔הוּ ט֥וֹב דְּבַר־יְהוָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבַּ֑רְתָּ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֥י יִהְיֶ֛ה שָׁל֥וֹם וֶאֱמֶ֖ת בְּיָמָֽי׃פ

[Isaiah 39:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.39.8/)

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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:835` 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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