--- title: Zechariah 11:5 (JPS 1917) — whose buyers slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they tha… · tree and pragmatics description: whose buyers slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say: Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not. Who acts: buyers, I, own shepherds. 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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 (buyers, I, own shepherds), 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:159 # text = whose buyers slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say: Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not. 1 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 buyers buyer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 slay slay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sell sell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Blessed bless VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 ccomp _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advcl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 shepherds shepherd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 pity pity VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slay** | present | buyers | thickets *= thicket* | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 2 | **hold** | present | buyers *not said here* | thickets *= thicket* | | | | guilty *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | | 3 | **sell** | present | | thickets *= thicket* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | buyers *= buyer* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **bless** | infinitive · passive | | the LORD | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | I | | | | | rich *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **pity** | present | thickets's own shepherds | thickets *= thicket* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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} אֲשֶׁ֨ר קֹנֵיהֶ֤ן יַֽהֲרְגֻן֙ וְלֹ֣א יֶאְשָׁ֔מוּ וּמֹכְרֵיהֶ֣ן יֹאמַ֔ר בָּר֥וּךְ יְהוָ֖ה וַאעְשִׁ֑ר וְרֹ֣עֵיהֶ֔ם לֹ֥א יַחְמ֖וֹל עֲלֵיהֶֽן׃ [Zechariah 11:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:159` 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. - ← previous: [Zechariah 11:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.158/) - next →: [Zechariah 11:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.160/) - ↑ back to [Zechariah 11:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.5/)