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title: Zechariah 4:11 (JPS 1917) — Then answered I, and said unto him: 'What are these two olive-trees… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then answered I, and said unto him: 'What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?' Who acts: I. Zechariah 4:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 4:11 · JPS 1917

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Then answered I, and said unto him: 'What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** answer, say, be · **To what, where:** two olive trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 4:11 · 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), 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:54
# text = Then answered I, and said unto him: 'What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	ccomp	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
30	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | this two olive trees |  |  |  | upon the right side of the candlestick and the left side | tree rules |

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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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וָאַ֖עַן וָאֹמַ֣ר אֵלָ֑יו מַה־שְּׁנֵ֤י הַזֵּיתִים֙ הָאֵ֔לֶה עַל־יְמִ֥ין הַמְּנוֹרָ֖ה וְעַל־שְׂמֹאולָֽהּ׃

[Zechariah 4:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.4.11/)

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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:54` 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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