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title: Zechariah 9:17 (JPS 1917) — For how great is their goodness, and how great is their beauty! · tree and pragmatics
description: For how great is their goodness, and how great is their beauty! Who acts: goodness, beauty. Zechariah 9:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 9:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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For how great is their goodness, and how great is their beauty!

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**Who acts:** goodness, beauty · **What happens:** be

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This is Zechariah 9:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (goodness, beauty), 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:141
# text = For how great is their goodness, and how great is their beauty!
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: evaluate
- voice: none
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | hosts's goodness |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | hosts's beauty |  |  |  |  | great *property* | 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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כִּ֥י מַה־טּוּב֖וֹ וּמַה־יָפְי֑וֹ דָּגָן֙ בַּֽחוּרִ֔ים וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ יְנוֹבֵ֥ב בְּתֻלֽוֹת׃

[Zechariah 9:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **For how great is their goodness, and how great is their beauty!**
2. [Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.142/)

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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:141` 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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