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title: Zechariah 8:5 (JPS 1917) — And the broad places of the city shall be full of boys and girls pla… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the broad places of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the broad places thereof. Who acts: broad places, girls. Zechariah 8:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 8:5 · JPS 1917

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And the broad places of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the broad places thereof.

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**Who acts:** broad places, girls · **What happens:** be, play · **To what, where:** broad places

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This is Zechariah 8:5 · 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 (broad places, girls), 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:ZEC:105
# text = And the broad places of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the broad places thereof.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | the broad places of the city |  |  |  |  | of boys and girls; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | girls *not said here* |  |  | the broad places |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וּרְחֹב֤וֹת הָעִיר֙ יִמָּ֣לְא֔וּ יְלָדִ֖ים וִֽילָד֑וֹת מְשַׂחֲקִ֖ים בִּרְחֹֽבֹתֶֽיהָ׃ס

[Zechariah 8:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.5/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:105` 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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