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title: Zechariah 11:17 (JPS 1917) — Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! · tree and pragmatics
description: Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! Who acts: worthless shepherd. Zechariah 11:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 11:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock!

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**Who acts:** worthless shepherd · **What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** flock

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This is Zechariah 11:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (worthless shepherd), 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:172
# text = Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock!
1	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leaveth	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=excl, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | the worthless shepherd | the flock |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=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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ה֣וֹי רֹעִ֤י הָֽאֱלִיל֙ עֹזְבִ֣י הַצֹּ֔אן חֶ֥רֶב עַל־זְרוֹע֖וֹ וְעַל־עֵ֣ין יְמִינ֑וֹ זְרֹעוֹ֙ יָב֣וֹשׁ תִּיבָ֔שׁ וְעֵ֥ין יְמִינ֖וֹ כָּהֹ֥ה תִכְהֶֽה׃ס

[Zechariah 11:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock!**
2. [The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye; his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.173/)

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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:172` 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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