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title: Zechariah 4:7 (JPS 1917) — Who art thou, O great mountain before Zerubbabel? thou shalt become… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who art thou, O great mountain before Zerubbabel? thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it.' Who acts: thou, Zerubbabel, Grace. Zechariah 4:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 4:7 · JPS 1917

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Who art thou, O great mountain before Zerubbabel? thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it.'

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**Who acts:** thou, Zerubbabel, Grace · **What happens:** be, become, bring, shout · **To what, where:** plain, top stone

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This is Zechariah 4:7 · 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 (thou, Zerubbabel, Grace), 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:50
# text = Who art thou, O great mountain before Zerubbabel? thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it.'
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Zerubbabel	Zerubbabel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	shoutings	shouting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | great mountain before Zerubbabel *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | shall | thou | a plain |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | shall | Zerubbabel | the top stone |  |  |  | with shoutings of Grace and grace; unto stone; forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 4 | **shout** |  | Grace and grace |  |  |  |  |  | nom shouting «communication intransitive»: of=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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מִֽי־אַתָּ֧ה הַֽר־הַגָּד֛וֹל לִפְנֵ֥י זְרֻבָּבֶ֖ל לְמִישֹׁ֑ר וְהוֹצִיא֙ אֶת־הָאֶ֣בֶן הָרֹאשָׁ֔ה תְּשֻׁא֕וֹת חֵ֥ן חֵ֖ן לָֽהּ׃פ

[Zechariah 4:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.4.7/)

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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:50` 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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