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title: Zechariah 10:5 — And they shall be as mighty men, treading down in the mire of the st… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And they shall be as mighty men, treading down in the mire of the streets in the battle, and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them; and the riders on horses shall be confounded. Who acts: goats, LORD. Zechariah 10:5 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the prag
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# Zechariah 10:5 זְכַרְיָה

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**Who acts:** goats, LORD · **What happens:** be, tread down, fight, confound · **To what, where:** mighty men, mire, riders

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This is Zechariah 10:5 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — goats, LORD — and what happens in the verse to mighty men, mire, riders, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 14 chapters of Zechariah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וְהָי֨וּ כְגִבֹּרִ֜ים בּוֹסִ֨ים בְּטִ֤יט חוּצוֹת֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה וְנִ֨לְחֲמ֔וּ כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה עִמָּ֑ם וְהֹבִ֖ישׁוּ רֹכְבֵ֥י סוּסִֽים׃

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[And they shall be as mighty men, treading down in the mire of the streets in the battle, and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them; and the riders on horses shall be confounded.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.147/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:ZEC:142
# text = וְהָי֨וּ כְגִבֹּרִ֜ים בּוֹסִ֨ים בְּטִ֤יט חוּצוֹת֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה וְנִ֨לְחֲמ֔וּ כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה עִמָּ֑ם וְהֹבִ֖ישׁוּ רֹכְבֵ֥י סוּסִֽים׃
# verse = ZEC.10.5
1-2	וְהָי֨וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	4	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ZEC_10:5!1|MId=o380100050011|Strong=2050b
2	הָי֨וּ	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	4	cop	_	Gloss=they.will.be|Ref=ZEC_10:5!1|MId=o380100050012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:380100030151;|Type=qatal
3-4	כְגִבֹּרִ֜ים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	כְ	כְּ	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=like|Ref=ZEC_10:5!2|MId=o380100050021|Strong=3509a
4	גִבֹּרִ֜ים	גִּבּוֹר	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	0	root	_	Gloss=warriors|Ref=ZEC_10:5!2|MId=o380100050022|Strong=1368|Type=adjective
5	בּוֹסִ֨ים	בּוּס	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	Gloss=[who].tread.down|Ref=ZEC_10:5!3|MId=o380100050031|Strong=0947|Frame=A0:380100030151;|Type=participle_active
6-7	בְּטִ֤יט	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=in.[the]|Ref=ZEC_10:5!4|MId=o380100050041|Strong=0871a
7	טִ֤יט	טִיט	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Gloss=mud|Ref=ZEC_10:5!4|MId=o380100050042|Strong=2916
8	חוּצוֹת֙	חוּץ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	7	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.[the].streets|Ref=ZEC_10:5!5|MId=o380100050051|Strong=2351
9-11	בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=ZEC_10:5!6|MId=o380100050061|Strong=0871a
10	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	11	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=ZEC_10:5!6|MId=o380100050061ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
11	מִּלְחָמָ֔ה	מִלְחָמָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Gloss=battle|Ref=ZEC_10:5!6|MId=o380100050062|Strong=4421
12-13	וְנִ֨לְחֲמ֔וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	13	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ZEC_10:5!7|MId=o380100050071|Strong=2050b
13	נִ֨לְחֲמ֔וּ	לָחַם	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	4	conj	_	Gloss=they.will.fight|Ref=ZEC_10:5!7|MId=o380100050072|Strong=3898|Frame=A0:380100030151;|Type=qatal
14	כִּ֥י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	17	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=ZEC_10:5!8|MId=o380100050081|Strong=3588
15	יְהוָ֖ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	17	nsubj	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=ZEC_10:5!9|MId=o380100050091|Strong=3068
16-17	עִמָּ֑ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	עִמּ	עִם	ADP	_	_	17	case	_	Gloss=[will|Ref=ZEC_10:5!10|MId=o380100050101|Strong=5973
17	ָ֑ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	advcl	_	Gloss=be].with.them|Ref=ZEC_10:5!10|MId=o380100050102|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
18-19	וְהֹבִ֖ישׁוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	19	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ZEC_10:5!11|MId=o380100050111|Strong=2050b
19	הֹבִ֖ישׁוּ	יָבֵשׁ	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=3	4	conj	_	Gloss=they.will.put.to.shame|Ref=ZEC_10:5!11|MId=o380100050112|Strong=0954|Frame=AA:380100030151;A0:380100050121;|Type=qatal
20	רֹכְבֵ֥י	רָכַב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	19	obj	_	Gloss=riders|Ref=ZEC_10:5!12|MId=o380100050121|Strong=7392|Frame=A1:380100050131;|Type=participle_active
21	סוּסִֽים	סוּס	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	20	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.horses|Ref=ZEC_10:5!13|MId=o380100050131|Strong=5483|SpaceAfter=No
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=ZEC_10:5!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| הָיוּ *they will be* | qatal · qal |  |  |  |  |
| בּוֹסִים *\[who\] tread down* | participle active · qal |  |  |  |  |
| נִלְחֲמוּ *they will fight* | qatal · niphal |  |  |  |  |
| הֹבִישׁוּ *they will put to shame* | qatal · hiphil | רֹכְבֵי *riders* |  |  |  |
| רֹכְבֵי *riders* | participle active · qal |  | סוּסִֽים *of horses* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וִיהוֹן גִבָּרֵי בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל דַיְשִׁין קְטִילֵי עַמְמַיָא בְּטִין שׁוּקִין בִּקְרָבָא וְיִגְחוּן קְרָב אֲרֵי מֵימְרָא דַייָ בְּסַעְדְהוֹן וְיִבְהֲתוּן רָכְבֵי סוּסְוָן:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And they shall be as mighty men, treading down in the mire of the streets in the battle, and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them; and the riders on horses shall be confounded.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.147/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:ZEC:142`.

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