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title: Zechariah 9:13 (JPS 1917) — For I bend Judah for Me, I fill the bow with Ephraim; and I will sti… · tree and pragmatics
description: For I bend Judah for Me, I fill the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Javan, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man. Who acts: I. Zechariah 9:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 9:13 · JPS 1917

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For I bend Judah for Me, I fill the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Javan, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bend, fill, stir up, make · **To what, where:** Judah, bow, sons, thee

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This is Zechariah 9:13 · 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 (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:137
# text = For I bend Judah for Me, I fill the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Javan, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	_
31	Javan	Javan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
36	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	obj	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | present | I | Judah |  |  |  | for Me | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent judah=Material |
| 2 | **fill** | present | I | the bow |  |  |  | with Ephraim | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bow=Patient with ephraim=Instrument |
| 3 | **stir up** | future | I | thy sons |  |  |  | against thy sons | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition son=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | future | I *not said here* | thee |  |  |  | as the sword of a mighty man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thou=Product |

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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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כִּֽי־דָרַ֨כְתִּי לִ֜י יְהוּדָ֗ה קֶ֚שֶׁת מִלֵּ֣אתִי אֶפְרַ֔יִם וְעוֹרַרְתִּ֤י בָנַ֙יִךְ֙ צִיּ֔וֹן עַל־בָּנַ֖יִךְ יָוָ֑ן וְשַׂמְתִּ֖יךְ כְּחֶ֥רֶב גִּבּֽוֹר׃

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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:137` of Mova's parse database.

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