--- title: Zechariah 4:9 (JPS 1917) — 'The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his… · tree and pragmatics description: 'The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. Who acts: hands, thou, LORD. 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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 (hands, thou, 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:52 # text = 'The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Zerubbabel Zerubbabel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 foundation foundation NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 also also ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 ccomp _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 unto unto ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present · perfect | the hands of Zerubbabel | the foundation of this house | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foundation=Result | | 2 | **finish** | shall | Zerubbabel's hands | foundation | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | | 3 | **know** | shall | thou | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **send** | present · perfect | the LORD of hosts | me | | | | unto you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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} יְדֵ֣י זְרֻבָּבֶ֗ל יִסְּד֛וּ הַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה וְיָדָ֣יו תְּבַצַּ֑עְנָה וְיָ֣דַעְתָּ֔ כִּֽי־יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁלָחַ֥נִי אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃ [Zechariah 4:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.4.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEC:52` 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. - ← previous: [Zechariah 4:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.51/) - next →: [Zechariah 4:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.53/) - ↑ back to [Zechariah 4:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.4.9/)