--- title: Zechariah 8:6 (JPS 1917) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If it be marvellous in the eyes of the… · tree and pragmatics description: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in Mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts. Who acts: LORD, city. 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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 (LORD, city), 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:106 # text = Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in Mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts. 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 If if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 marvellous marvellous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 remnant remnant NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 25 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 also also ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 29 marvellous marvellous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 Mine my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 34 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: other - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=other, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD of hosts | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | city | | | the eyes of the remnant of this people | day | marvellous *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | should | city | | | Mine eyes | | marvellous *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD of hosts | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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} כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת כִּ֣י יִפָּלֵ֗א בְּעֵינֵי֙ שְׁאֵרִית֙ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה בַּיָּמִ֖ים הָהֵ֑ם גַּם־בְּעֵינַי֙ יִפָּלֵ֔א נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃פ [Zechariah 8:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:106` 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. - ← previous: [Zechariah 8:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.105/) - next →: [Zechariah 8:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.107/) - ↑ back to [Zechariah 8:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.6/)