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title: Zechariah 9:1 (JPS 1917) — In the land of Hadrach, and in Damascus shall be His resting-place;… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the land of Hadrach, and in Damascus shall be His resting-place; for the LORD'S is the eye of man and all the tribes of Israel. Who acts: LORD. Zechariah 9:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 9:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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In the land of Hadrach, and in Damascus shall be His resting-place; for the LORD'S is the eye of man and all the tribes of Israel.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** resting place, land, eye

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This is Zechariah 9:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (LORD), 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:125
# text = In the land of Hadrach, and in Damascus shall be His resting-place; for the LORD'S is the eye of man and all the tribes of Israel.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hadrach	Hadrach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
12	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	'S	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | shall |  | Damascus's resting place |  | the land of Hadrach |  | in Damascus | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the LORD | the eye |  |  |  | of man and all tribes of Israel | tree rules |

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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}

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מַשָּׂ֤א דְבַר־יְהוָה֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חַדְרָ֔ךְ וְדַמֶּ֖שֶׂק מְנֻחָת֑וֹ כִּ֤י לַֽיהוָה֙ עֵ֣ין אָדָ֔ם וְכֹ֖ל שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Zechariah 9:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [The burden of the word of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.124/)
2. **In the land of Hadrach, and in Damascus shall be His resting-place; for the LORD'S is the eye of man and all the tribes of Israel.**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:125` 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.

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