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title: Zechariah 3:2 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Satan: 'The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan, yea, t… · tree and pragmatics
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# Zechariah 3:2 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said unto Satan: 'The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan, yea, the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; is not this man a brand plucked out of the fire?'

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** say, rebuke, choose, pluck out · **To what, where:** thee, Jerusalem, man, fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 3:2 · 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 (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:35
# text = And the LORD said unto Satan: 'The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan, yea, the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; is not this man a brand plucked out of the fire?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rebuke	rebuke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	rebuke	rebuke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	obj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
34	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, indirect=1, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Satan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rebuke** | infinitive | the LORD | thee |  |  |  | Satan *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | present · perfect | the LORD | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerusalem=Theme |
| 4 | **rebuke** | infinitive | the LORD | thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 5 | **pluck out** | present · passive |  | this man |  | the fire |  | a brand *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fire=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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־הַשָּׂטָ֗ן יִגְעַ֨ר יְהוָ֤ה בְּךָ֙ הַשָּׂטָ֔ן וְיִגְעַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ בְּךָ֔ הַבֹּחֵ֖ר בִּירֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם הֲל֧וֹא זֶ֦ה א֖וּד מֻצָּ֥ל מֵאֵֽשׁ׃

[Zechariah 3:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.3.2/)

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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:35` 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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