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title: Zechariah 1:15 (JPS 1917) — and I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for… · tree and pragmatics
description: and I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped for evil. Who acts: I, nations. Zechariah 1:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 1:15 · JPS 1917

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and I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped for evil.

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**Who acts:** I, nations · **What happens:** be, help · **To what, where:** ease

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This is Zechariah 1:15 · 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, nations), 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:14
# text = and I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped for evil.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	sore	sore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	displeased	displease	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	but	but	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	little	little	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	displeased	displease	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with the nations; displease, sore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the nations |  |  | ease |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked*; but, displease *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | past | nations *= nation* |  |  |  |  | for evil | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְקֶ֤צֶף גָּדוֹל֙ אֲנִ֣י קֹצֵ֔ף עַל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם הַשַּֽׁאֲנַנִּ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲנִי֙ קָצַ֣פְתִּי מְּעָ֔ט וְהֵ֖מָּה עָזְר֥וּ לְרָעָֽה׃

[Zechariah 1:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.1.15/)

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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:14` 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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