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title: Zechariah 9:12 (JPS 1917) — Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even to-day do I dec… · tree and pragmatics
description: Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee. Who acts: you, I. Zechariah 9:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 9:12 · JPS 1917

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Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** return, declare, render · **To what, where:** double · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 9:12 · 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 (you, 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:136
# text = Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.
1	Return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	vocative	_	_
7	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	double	double	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the stronghold *result*; ye *vocative* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to stronghold=Result |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **render** | future | I | double |  |  |  | unto thee | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent double=Theme |

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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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שׁ֚וּבוּ לְבִצָּר֔וֹן אֲסִירֵ֖י הַתִּקְוָ֑ה גַּם־הַיּ֕וֹם מַגִּ֥יד מִשְׁנֶ֖ה אָשִׁ֥יב לָֽךְ׃

[Zechariah 9:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.12/)

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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:136` 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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