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title: Zechariah 11:3 (JPS 1917) — Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is spoiled; Hark… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is spoiled; Hark! the roaring of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are spoiled. Who acts: shepherds, young lions. Zechariah 11:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 11:3 · JPS 1917

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Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is spoiled; Hark! the roaring of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are spoiled.

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**Who acts:** shepherds, young lions · **What happens:** spoil, wail, glory, roar · **To what, where:** glory, thickets

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This is Zechariah 11:3 · 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 (shepherds, young lions), 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:157
# text = Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is spoiled; Hark! the roaring of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are spoiled.
1	Hark	hark	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Hark	hark	INTJ	UH	_	1	parataxis	_	_
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	roaring	roaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express, form=excl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | present · passive |  | shepherds's glory |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spoil** | present · passive |  | the thickets of the Jordan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wail** |  | the shepherds |  |  |  |  |  | nom wailing «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **glory** |  | shepherds *= shepherd* |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **roar** |  | young lions |  |  |  |  |  | nom roaring «event intransitive»: of=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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ק֚וֹל יִֽלְלַ֣ת הָרֹעִ֔ים כִּ֥י שֻׁדְּדָ֖ה אַדַּרְתָּ֑ם ק֚וֹל שַׁאֲגַ֣ת כְּפִירִ֔ים כִּ֥י שֻׁדַּ֖ד גְּא֥וֹן הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃ס

[Zechariah 11:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.3/)

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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:157` 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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