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title: Zechariah 13:1 (JPS 1917) — In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for purification and for sprinkling. Zechariah 13:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 13:1 · JPS 1917

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In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for purification and for sprinkling.

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**What happens:** open · **To what, where:** fountain, house

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This is Zechariah 13:1 · 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: 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:189
# text = In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for purification and for sprinkling.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	_	6	expl	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	purification	purification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sprinkling	sprinkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **open** | participle |  | a fountain for purification and sprinkling *not said here* | the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to house=Recipient |

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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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בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא יִֽהְיֶה֙ מָק֣וֹר נִפְתָּ֔ח לְבֵ֥ית דָּוִ֖יד וּלְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לְחַטַּ֖את וּלְנִדָּֽה׃

[Zechariah 13:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.13.1/)

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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:189` 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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