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title: Zechariah 2:16 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD shall inherit Judah as His portion in the holy land, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD shall inherit Judah as His portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. Who acts: LORD. Zechariah 2:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 2:16 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD shall inherit Judah as His portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** inherit, choose · **To what, where:** Judah, Jerusalem

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This is Zechariah 2:16 · 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 (LORD), 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:32
# text = And the LORD shall inherit Judah as His portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	inherit	inherit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **inherit** | shall | the LORD | Judah |  |  |  | as LORD's portion in the holy land | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judah=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | shall | the LORD *not said here* | Jerusalem |  |  | again |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerusalem=Theme |

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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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וְנָחַ֨ל יְהוָ֤ה אֶת־יְהוּדָה֙ חֶלְק֔וֹ עַ֖ל אַדְמַ֣ת הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ וּבָחַ֥ר ע֖וֹד בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Zechariah 2:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.2.16/)

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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:32` 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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