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title: Zechariah 7:2 (JPS 1917) — When Bethel-sarezer, and Regem-melech and his men, had sent to entre… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Bethel-sarezer, and Regem-melech and his men, had sent to entreat the favour of the LORD, Who acts: Bethel sarezer. Zechariah 7:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 7:2 · JPS 1917

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When Bethel-sarezer, and Regem-melech and his men, had sent to entreat the favour of the LORD,

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**Who acts:** Bethel sarezer · **What happens:** send, entreat, favour · **To what, where:** favour, LORD

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This is Zechariah 7:2 · 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 (Bethel sarezer), 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:87
# text = When Bethel-sarezer, and Regem-melech and his men, had sent to entreat the favour of the LORD,
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
2	Bethel	Bethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sarezer	sarezer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	Regem	Regem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	melech	melech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	entreat	entreat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	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 | **send** | past · perfect | Bethel sarezer and Regem melech and melech's men |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **entreat** | to-infinitive | Bethel sarezer and Regem melech and melech's men *not said here* | the favour of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient |
| 3 | **favour** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ בֵּֽית־אֵ֔לבֵּֽית־אֵ֔ל שַׂר־אֶ֕צֶרשַׂר־אֶ֕צֶר וְרֶ֥גֶמ מֶ֖לֶךְ רֶ֥גֶמ מֶ֖לֶךְ וַֽאֲנָשָׁ֑יו לְחַלּ֖וֹת אֶת־פְּנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

[Zechariah 7:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.7.2/)

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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:87` 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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