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title: Zechariah 3:9 (JPS 1917) — For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone… · tree and pragmatics
description: For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone are seven facets; behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts: And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. Who acts: I, LORD. Zechariah 3:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Zechariah 3:9 · JPS 1917

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For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone are seven facets; behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts: And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

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**Who acts:** I, LORD · **What happens:** behold, lay, be, engrave, say, remove · **To what, where:** stone, seven facets, graving, iniquity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 3:9 · 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, 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:42
# text = For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone are seven facets; behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts: And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
1	For	for	CCONJ	IN	_	17	cc	_	_
2	behold	behold	VERB	VB	_	17	discourse	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	facets	facet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	engrave	engrave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	graving	graving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **behold** | infinitive |  | the stone |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lay** | present · perfect | I | the stone |  |  | before Joshua |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme before joshua=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | seven facets |  |  |  | upon one stone | tree rules |
| 4 | **engrave** | future | I | the graving |  |  |  | thereof *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent graving=Destination |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **remove** | future | I | the iniquity of that land |  |  | day |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=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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כִּ֣י ׀ הִנֵּ֣ה הָאֶ֗בֶן אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָתַ֙תִּי֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ עַל־אֶ֥בֶן אַחַ֖ת שִׁבְעָ֣ה עֵינָ֑יִם הִנְנִ֧י מְפַתֵּ֣חַ פִּתֻּחָ֗הּ נְאֻם֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת וּמַשְׁתִּ֛י אֶת־עֲוֺ֥ן הָאָֽרֶץ־הַהִ֖יא בְּי֥וֹם אֶחָֽד׃

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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:42` of Mova's parse database.

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