--- title: Zechariah 8:17 (JPS 1917) — and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbour… · tree and pragmatics description: and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.' Who acts: you, none, these, I. 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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 (you, none, these, I), 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:117 # text = and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.' 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 6 devise devise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 against against ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 18 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 oath oath NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 23 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 advcl _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 hate hate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **devise** | infinitive | none | evil | | your hearts | | against Jerusalem's neighbour | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Patient | | 3 | **love** | infinitive | you *not said here* | no false oath | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oath=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | present | these | things | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hate** | present | I | things | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | | 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} וְאִ֣ישׁ ׀ אֶת־רָעַ֣ת רֵעֵ֗הוּ אַֽל־תַּחְשְׁבוּ֙ בִּלְבַבְכֶ֔ם וּשְׁבֻ֥עַת שֶׁ֖קֶר אַֽל־תֶּאֱהָ֑בוּ כִּ֧י אֶת־כָּל־אֵ֛לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׂנֵ֖אתִי נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס [Zechariah 8:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:117` 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 8:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.116/) - next →: [Zechariah 8:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.118/) - ↑ back to [Zechariah 8:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.17/)