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title: Zechariah 12:1 (JPS 1917) — The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. · tree and pragmatics
description: The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Zechariah 12:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 12:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel.

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**What happens:** burden, word · **To what, where:** word, LORD

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This is Zechariah 12:1 · 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: 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:174
# text = The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	concerning	concern	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **burden** |  |  | the word of the LORD |  |  |  | concern Israel | nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient concern=obl |
| 2 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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מַשָּׂ֥א דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל נְאֻם־יְהוָ֗ה נֹטֶ֤ה שָׁמַ֙יִם֙ וְיֹסֵ֣ד אָ֔רֶץ וְיֹצֵ֥ר רֽוּחַ־אָדָ֖ם בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃פ

[Zechariah 12:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.12.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel.**
2. [The saying of the LORD, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirit of man within him:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.175/)

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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:174` 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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