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title: Zechariah 9:16 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of H… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of His people; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, glittering over His land. Who acts: LORD, hosts, stones. Zechariah 9:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 9:16 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of His people; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, glittering over His land.

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**Who acts:** LORD, hosts, stones · **What happens:** save, be, glitter · **To what, where:** hosts, land

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This is Zechariah 9:16 · 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 (LORD, hosts, stones), 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:140
# text = And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of His people; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, glittering over His land.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **save** | shall | the LORD | hosts *= host* |  |  | day | as the flock of LORD's people | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | shall | hosts *= host* |  |  |  |  | as the stones; of a crown | tree rules |
| 3 | **glitter** | gerund | the stones *not said here* |  |  | LORD's land |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Location |

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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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וְֽהוֹשִׁיעָ֞ם יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֛ם בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא כְּצֹ֣אן עַמּ֑וֹ כִּ֚י אַבְנֵי־נֵ֔זֶר מִֽתְנוֹסְס֖וֹת עַל־אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃

[Zechariah 9:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.16/)

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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:140` 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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