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title: Zechariah 6:12 (JPS 1917) — and speak unto him, saying: Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying:… · tree and pragmatics
description: and speak unto him, saying: Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying: Behold, a man whose name is the Shoot, and who shall shoot up out of his place, and build the temple of the LORD; Who acts: you, LORD, name, man. Zechariah 6:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Zechariah 6:12 · JPS 1917

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and speak unto him, saying: Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying: Behold, a man whose name is the Shoot, and who shall shoot up out of his place, and build the temple of the LORD;

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**Who acts:** you, LORD, name, man, Shoot · **What happens:** speak, say, be, shoot up, build, name · **To what, where:** man, Shoot, place, temple · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 6:12 · 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 (you, LORD, name, man), 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:81
# text = and speak unto him, saying: Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying: Behold, a man whose name is the Shoot, and who shall shoot up out of his place, and build the temple of the LORD;
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	speaketh	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Shoot	shoot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Jehozadak | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the LORD of hosts *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the Shoot's name | the Shoot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shoot up** | shall | a man |  |  | Jehozadak's place |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **build** | infinitive | a man *not said here* | the temple of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset temple=Product |
| 8 | **name** |  | the Shoot |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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וְאָמַרְתָּ֤ אֵלָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּה־אִ֞ישׁ צֶ֤מַח שְׁמוֹ֙ וּמִתַּחְתָּ֣יו יִצְמָ֔ח וּבָנָ֖ה אֶת־הֵיכַ֥ל יְהוָֽהּ׃

[Zechariah 6:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.12/)

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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:81` of Mova's parse database.

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