--- title: Zechariah 8:16 (JPS 1917) — These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth… · tree and pragmatics description: These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates; Who acts: These, ye. Zechariah 8:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.116/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Zechariah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC/) / [chapter 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC/8/) / [8:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.16/) / JPS 1 # Zechariah 8:16 · JPS 1917 These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates; **Who acts:** These, ye · **What happens:** be, do, speak, execute, judge · **To what, where:** things, truth, man, judgment, gates · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Zechariah 8:16 · 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 (These, ye), 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:116 # text = These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates; 1 These this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 obj _ _ 6 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 7 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 11 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nsubj _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 iobj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 execute execute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 judgment judgment NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | These | the things | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | shall | ye | the things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | ye | the truth | every man | | | with Jerusalem's neighbour | tree rules | | 4 | **execute** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | the judgment of truth and peace | | your gates | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Patient | | 5 | **judge** | | | truth and peace | | | | | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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} אֵ֥לֶּה הַדְּבָרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּֽעֲשׂ֑וּ דַּבְּר֤וּ אֱמֶת֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵ֔הוּ אֱמֶת֙ וּמִשְׁפַּ֣ט שָׁל֔וֹם שִׁפְט֖וּ בְּשַׁעֲרֵיכֶֽם׃ [Zechariah 8:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:116` 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 8:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.115/) - next →: [Zechariah 8:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.117/) - ↑ back to [Zechariah 8:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.16/)