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title: Zechariah 12:9 (JPS 1917) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Who acts: house, I, nations. Zechariah 12:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 12:9 · JPS 1917

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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** house, I, nations · **What happens:** come, pass, seek, destroy · **To what, where:** nations, Jerusalem

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This is Zechariah 12:9 · 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 (house, I, nations), 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:183
# text = And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **come** | shall | house |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | house *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **destroy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | all nations |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | present | all nations |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against jerusalem=Location |

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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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וְהָיָ֖ה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא אֲבַקֵּ֗שׁ לְהַשְׁמִיד֙ אֶת־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם הַבָּאִ֖ים עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Zechariah 12:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.12.9/)

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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:183` 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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