--- title: Zechariah 8:21 (JPS 1917) — and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying: Let us… · tree and pragmatics description: and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying: Let us go speedily to entreat the favour of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I will go also. Who acts: inhabitants, us, 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 (inhabitants, us, 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:121 # text = and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying: Let us go speedily to entreat the favour of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I will go also. 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 another another PRON DT PronType=Ind 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 15 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 speedily speedily ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 entreat entreat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 37 also also ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | shall | the inhabitants of one city | | | another | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to another=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the inhabitants of one city *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | speedily *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **entreat** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | the favour of the LORD | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | | 6 | **seek** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | the LORD of hosts | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | | 7 | **go** | future | I | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **favour** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom favour «feeling 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} וְֽהָלְכ֡וּ יֹשְׁבֵי֩ אַחַ֨ת אֶל־אַחַ֜ת לֵאמֹ֗ר נֵלְכָ֤ה הָלוֹךְ֙ לְחַלּוֹת֙ אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וּלְבַקֵּ֖שׁ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת אֵלְכָ֖ה גַּם־אָֽנִי׃ [Zechariah 8:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:121` 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 8:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.120/) - next →: [Zechariah 8:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.122/) - ↑ back to [Zechariah 8:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.21/)