diff --git a/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js b/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js
index e2671e2ea..c23849d30 100644
--- a/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js
+++ b/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js
@@ -402,11 +402,7 @@ describe('TreeSitterLanguageMode', () => {
             attribute_name: 'attr'
           },
           injectionRegExp: 'html',
-          injectionPoints: [{
-            type: 'raw_element',
-            language () { return 'javascript' },
-            content (node) { return node.child(1) }
-          }]
+          injectionPoints: [SCRIPT_TAG_INJECTION_POINT]
         })
       })
 
@@ -1081,6 +1077,61 @@ describe('TreeSitterLanguageMode', () => {
         'property_identifier'
       ])
     })
+
+    it('includes nodes in injected syntax trees', async () => {
+      const jsGrammar = new TreeSitterGrammar(atom.grammars, jsGrammarPath, {
+        id: 'javascript',
+        parser: 'tree-sitter-javascript',
+        scopes: {},
+        injectionRegExp: 'javascript',
+        injectionPoints: [HTML_TEMPLATE_LITERAL_INJECTION_POINT]
+      })
+
+      const htmlGrammar = new TreeSitterGrammar(atom.grammars, htmlGrammarPath, {
+        id: 'html',
+        parser: 'tree-sitter-html',
+        scopes: {},
+        injectionRegExp: 'html',
+        injectionPoints: [SCRIPT_TAG_INJECTION_POINT]
+      })
+
+      atom.grammars.addGrammar(jsGrammar)
+      atom.grammars.addGrammar(htmlGrammar)
+
+      buffer.setText(`
+        <div>
+          <script>
+            html \`
+              <span>\${person.name}</span>
+            \`
+          </script>
+        </div>
+      `)
+
+      const languageMode = new TreeSitterLanguageMode({buffer, grammar: htmlGrammar, grammars: atom.grammars})
+      buffer.setLanguageMode(languageMode)
+      await nextHighlightingUpdate(languageMode)
+      await nextHighlightingUpdate(languageMode)
+      await nextHighlightingUpdate(languageMode)
+
+      const position = buffer.findSync('name').start
+      expect(languageMode.scopeDescriptorForPosition(position).getScopesArray()).toEqual([
+        'html',
+        'fragment',
+        'element',
+        'raw_element',
+        'raw_text',
+        'program',
+        'expression_statement',
+        'call_expression',
+        'template_string',
+        'fragment',
+        'element',
+        'template_substitution',
+        'member_expression',
+        'property_identifier'
+      ])
+    })
   })
 
   describe('TextEditor.selectLargerSyntaxNode and .selectSmallerSyntaxNode', () => {
@@ -1247,3 +1298,9 @@ const HTML_TEMPLATE_LITERAL_INJECTION_POINT = {
     return node.lastChild
   }
 }
+
+const SCRIPT_TAG_INJECTION_POINT = {
+  type: 'raw_element',
+  language () { return 'javascript' },
+  content (node) { return node.child(1) }
+}
diff --git a/src/tree-sitter-language-mode.js b/src/tree-sitter-language-mode.js
index c431e51b9..7d0377f28 100644
--- a/src/tree-sitter-language-mode.js
+++ b/src/tree-sitter-language-mode.js
@@ -389,23 +389,41 @@ class TreeSitterLanguageMode {
 
   scopeDescriptorForPosition (point) {
     if (!this.tree) return this.rootScopeDescriptor
-
     point = Point.fromObject(point)
-    let node = this.tree.rootNode.descendantForPosition(point)
 
-    // Don't include anonymous token types like '(' because they prevent scope chains
-    // from being parsed as CSS selectors by the `slick` parser. Other css selector
-    // parsers like `postcss-selector-parser` do allow arbitrary quoted strings in
-    // selectors.
-    if (!node.isNamed) node = node.parent
+    const iterators = []
+    this._forEachTreeWithRange(new Range(point, point), tree => {
+      const rootStartIndex = tree.rootNode.startIndex
+      let node = tree.rootNode.descendantForPosition(point)
 
-    const result = []
-    while (node) {
-      result.push(node.type)
-      node = node.parent
+      // Don't include anonymous token types like '(' because they prevent scope chains
+      // from being parsed as CSS selectors by the `slick` parser. Other css selector
+      // parsers like `postcss-selector-parser` do allow arbitrary quoted strings in
+      // selectors.
+      if (!node.isNamed) node = node.parent
+      iterators.push({node, rootStartIndex})
+    })
+
+    iterators.sort(compareScopeDescriptorIterators)
+
+    const scopes = []
+    for (;;) {
+      const {length} = iterators
+      if (!length) break
+      const iterator = iterators[length - 1]
+      scopes.push(iterator.node.type)
+      iterator.node = iterator.node.parent
+      if (iterator.node) {
+        let i = length - 1
+        while (i > 0 && compareScopeDescriptorIterators(iterator, iterators[i - 1]) < 0) i--
+        if (i < length - 1) iterators.splice(i, 0, iterators.pop())
+      } else {
+        iterators.pop()
+      }
     }
-    result.push(this.grammar.id)
-    return new ScopeDescriptor({scopes: result.reverse()})
+
+    scopes.push(this.grammar.id)
+    return new ScopeDescriptor({scopes: scopes.reverse()})
   }
 
   getGrammar () {
@@ -1011,6 +1029,13 @@ function nodeIsSmaller (left, right) {
   return left.endIndex - left.startIndex < right.endIndex - right.startIndex
 }
 
+function compareScopeDescriptorIterators (a, b) {
+  return (
+    a.node.startIndex - b.node.startIndex ||
+    a.rootStartIndex - b.rootStartIndex
+  )
+}
+
 function pointIsGreater (left, right) {
   return left.row > right.row || left.row === right.row && left.column > right.column
 }