--- title: Zechariah 11:17 (JPS 1917) — The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye; his arm sha… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: sword. Zechariah 11:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.173/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Zechariah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC/) / [chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC/11/) / [11:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.17/) / JPS 2 # Zechariah 11:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 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. **Who acts:** sword · **What happens:** be, dry up, darken · **To what, where:** arm, right eye This is Zechariah 11:17 · 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 (sword), 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:173 # text = 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. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 19 clean clean ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 utterly utterly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 darkened darken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | shall | the sword | | | | | upon LORD's arm and LORD's right eye | tree rules | | 2 | **dry up** | shall · passive | | LORD's arm | | | | clean *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 3 | **darken** | shall · passive | | LORD's right eye | | | | utterly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.172/) 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.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:173` 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 11:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.172/) - next →: [Zechariah 12:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.174/) - ↑ back to [Zechariah 11:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.17/)