--- title: Zechariah 8:14 (JPS 1917) — For thus saith the LORD of host: As I purposed to do evil unto you,… · tree and pragmatics description: For thus saith the LORD of host: As I purposed to do evil unto you, when your fathers provoked Me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not; Who acts: LORD, I, fathers. 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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, I, fathers), 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:114 # text = For thus saith the LORD of host: As I purposed to do evil unto you, when your fathers provoked Me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not; 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 thus thus ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 As as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 purposed purpose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 unto unto ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 21 mark _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 provoked provoke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 22 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 24 saith say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 repented repent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD of host | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **purpose** *speech: other* | past | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | evil | | | | unto you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality | | 4 | **provoke** | past | your fathers | Me | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD of hosts | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **repent** | past | I | | | | | | tree rules | 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} כִּ֣י כֹ֣ה אָמַר֮ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאוֹת֒ כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר זָמַמְ֜תִּילְהָרַ֣ע לָכֶ֗ם בְּהַקְצִ֤יף אֲבֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ אֹתִ֔י אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת וְלֹ֖א נִחָֽמְתִּי׃ [Zechariah 8:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:114` 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 8:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.113/) - next →: [Zechariah 8:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.115/) - ↑ back to [Zechariah 8:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.14/)