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title: Zechariah 9:17 (JPS 1917) — Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids. · tree and pragmatics
description: Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids. Who acts: Corn, young men. 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 2 of 2

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Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.

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**Who acts:** Corn, young men · **What happens:** make, flourish · **To what, where:** young men

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This is Zechariah 9:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Corn, young men), 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:142
# text = Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.
1	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	flourish	flourish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	orphan	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | shall | Corn | the young men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flourish** | infinitive | the young men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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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!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.141/)
2. **Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.**

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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:142` 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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