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title: Zechariah 3:5 (JPS 1917) — And I said: 'Let them set a fair mitre upon his head.' So they set a… · tree and pragmatics
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# Zechariah 3:5 · JPS 1917

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And I said: 'Let them set a fair mitre upon his head.' So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the angel of the LORD stood by.

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**Who acts:** I, garments, angel · **What happens:** say, let, set, clothe, stand by · **To what, where:** garments, fair mitre, head, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 3:5 · 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, garments, angel), 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:38
# text = And I said: 'Let them set a fair mitre upon his head.' So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the angel of the LORD stood by.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mitre	mitre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
17	So	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	mitre	mitre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
40	by	by	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | garments *= garment* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | garments *= garment* *not said here* | a fair mitre |  | LORD's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mitre=Theme upon head=Destination |
| 4 | **set** | past | garments *= garment* | a fair mitre |  | LORD's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mitre=Theme upon head=Destination |
| 5 | **clothe** | past | garments *= garment* *not said here* | LORD |  |  |  | with garments | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **stand by** | past | the angel of the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וָאֹמַ֕ר יָשִׂ֛ימוּ צָנִ֥יף טָה֖וֹר עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַיָּשִׂימוּ֩ הַצָּנִ֨יף הַטָּה֜וֹר עַל־רֹאשׁ֗וֹ וַיַּלְבִּשֻׁ֙הוּ֙ בְּגָדִ֔ים וּמַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָ֖ה עֹמֵֽד׃

[Zechariah 3:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.3.5/)

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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:38` 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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