--- title: Zechariah 8:19 (JPS 1917) — 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful seasons; therefore love ye truth and peace. Who acts: LORD, fast, ye, fourth month. 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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, fast, ye, fourth month), 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:119 # text = 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful seasons; therefore love ye truth and peace. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Thus thus ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fast fast NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 amod _ _ 14 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 fast fast NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fast fast NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fast fast NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 tenth tenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 cop _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 gladness gladness NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ _ 51 ; ; PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ _ 52 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 love love VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 54 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 53 nsubj _ _ 55 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 conj _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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** | shall | the fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth | the joy and gladness and cheerful seasons | | | | to house of Judah | tree rules | | 3 | **love** | infinitive | ye | truth and peace | | | | therefore *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | | 4 | **fast** | | the fourth month | | | | | | nom fast «act intransitive»: of=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} כֹּֽה־אָמַ֞ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֗וֹת צ֣וֹם הָרְבִיעִ֡י וְצ֣וֹם הַחֲמִישִׁי֩ וְצ֨וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֜י וְצ֣וֹם הָעֲשִׂירִ֗י יִהְיֶ֤ה לְבֵית־יְהוּדָה֙ לְשָׂשׂ֣וֹן וּלְשִׂמְחָ֔ה וּֽלְמֹעֲדִ֖ים טוֹבִ֑ים וְהָאֱמֶ֥ת וְהַשָּׁל֖וֹם אֱהָֽבוּ׃פ [Zechariah 8:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:119` 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 8:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.118/) - next →: [Zechariah 8:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.120/) - ↑ back to [Zechariah 8:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.19/)