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title: Zechariah 3:7 (JPS 1917) — 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If thou wilt walk in My ways, and if… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If thou wilt walk in My ways, and if thou wilt keep My charge, and wilt also judge My house, and wilt also keep My courts, then I will give thee free access among these that stand by. Who acts: LORD, thou, I, My. Zechariah 3:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and t
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# Zechariah 3:7 · JPS 1917

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'Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If thou wilt walk in My ways, and if thou wilt keep My charge, and wilt also judge My house, and wilt also keep My courts, then I will give thee free access among these that stand by.

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**Who acts:** LORD, thou, I, My · **What happens:** say, walk, keep, judge, give, stand by · **To what, where:** ways, charge, house, courts, free access, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 3:7 · 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, thou, I, My), 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:40
# text = 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If thou wilt walk in My ways, and if thou wilt keep My charge, and wilt also judge My house, and wilt also keep My courts, then I will give thee free access among these that stand by.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
20	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	wilt	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	wilt	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	also	also	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
36	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
43	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	iobj	_	_
44	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	among	among	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	45	nmod	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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* | present | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | thou |  |  | My ways |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory |
| 3 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | thou | My charge |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 4 | **judge** | future | thou *not said here* | My house |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent house=Value |
| 5 | **keep** | future | thou *not said here* | My courts |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme |
| 6 | **give** | future | I | free access | thee |  | then | among these | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient access=Theme |
| 7 | **stand by** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **charge** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=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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כֹּה־אָמַ֞ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֗וֹת אִם־בִּדְרָכַ֤י תֵּלֵךְ֙ וְאִ֣ם אֶת־מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֣י תִשְׁמֹ֔ר וְגַם־אַתָּה֙ תָּדִ֣ין אֶת־בֵּיתִ֔י וְגַ֖ם תִּשְׁמֹ֣ר אֶת־חֲצֵרָ֑י וְנָתַתִּ֤י לְךָ֙ מַהְלְכִ֔ים בֵּ֥ין הָעֹמְדִ֖ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃

[Zechariah 3:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.3.7/)

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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:40` of Mova's parse database.

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