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title: Zechariah 11:1 (JPS 1917) — Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. · tree and pragmatics
description: Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. Who acts: you, fire. Zechariah 11:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 11:1 · JPS 1917

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Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

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**Who acts:** you, fire · **What happens:** open, devour · **To what, where:** doors, cedars

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This is Zechariah 11:1 · 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 (you, fire), 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:155
# text = Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
1	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cedars	cedar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy doors |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 2 | **devour** | may | the fire | thy cedars |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cedar=Patient |

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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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פְּתַ֥ח לְבָנ֖וֹן דְּלָתֶ֑יךָ וְתֹאכַ֥ל אֵ֖שׁ בַּאֲרָזֶֽיךָ׃

[Zechariah 11:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.1/)

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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:155` 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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