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title: Zechariah 12:2 (JPS 1917) — Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of staggering unto all the peopl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of staggering unto all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it fall to be in the siege against Jerusalem. Who acts: I, cup. Zechariah 12:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 12:2 · JPS 1917

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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of staggering unto all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it fall to be in the siege against Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** I, cup · **What happens:** make, fall, be · **To what, where:** cup, Jerusalem, Judah, siege

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This is Zechariah 12:2 · JPS 1917 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, cup), 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:176
# text = Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of staggering unto all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it fall to be in the siege against Jerusalem.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	staggering	staggering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	round	round	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | future | I | a cup of staggering unto all peoples | Jerusalem |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset jerusalem=Beneficiary cup=Product |
| 2 | **fall** | shall | cup |  |  | Judah |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon judah=Location |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | cup *not said here* |  |  | the siege |  | against Jerusalem | tree rules |

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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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הִנֵּ֣ה אָ֠נֹכִי שָׂ֣ם אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֧ם סַף־רַ֛עַל לְכָל־הָעַמִּ֖ים סָבִ֑יב וְגַ֧ם עַל־יְהוּדָ֛ה יִֽהְיֶ֥ה בַמָּצ֖וֹר עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Zechariah 12:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.12.2/)

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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:176` 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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