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title: Zechariah 11:7 (JPS 1917) — And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Graciousness, and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Graciousness, and the other I called Binders; and I fed the flock. Who acts: I. Zechariah 11:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 11:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Graciousness, and the other I called Binders; and I fed the flock.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, call, feed · **To what, where:** two staves, one, Graciousness, other, Binders, flock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 11:7 · 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 (I), 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:162
# text = And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Graciousness, and the other I called Binders; and I fed the flock.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	staves	stave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Graciousness	graciousness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	Binders	binder	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **take** | past | I | two staves |  |  |  | unto me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stave=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past | I | the one and the other *not said here* | Graciousness |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent graciousness=Recipient |
| 3 | **call** | past | I | the other *not said here* | Binders |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent binder=Recipient |
| 4 | **feed** | past | I | the flock |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Recipient |

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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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וָֽאֶרְעֶה֙ אֶת־צֹ֣אן הַֽהֲרֵגָ֔ה לָכֵ֖ן עֲנִיֵּ֣י הַצֹּ֑אן וָאֶקַּֽח־לִ֞י שְׁנֵ֣י מַקְל֗וֹת לְאַחַ֞ד קָרָ֤אתִי נֹ֙עַם֙ וּלְאַחַד֙ קָרָ֣אתִי חֹֽבְלִ֔ים וָאֶרְעֶ֖ה אֶת־הַצֹּֽאן׃

[Zechariah 11:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.161/)
2. **And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Graciousness, and the other I called Binders; and I fed the flock.**

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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:162` 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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