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title: Zechariah 1:10 (JPS 1917) — And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said: 'Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said: 'These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.' Who acts: man, These, LORD. Zechariah 1:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 1:10 · JPS 1917

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And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said: 'These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.'

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**Who acts:** man, These, LORD · **What happens:** stand, answer, say, be, send, walk · **To what, where:** myrtle trees, trees, earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 1:10 · 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 (man, These, 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:9
# text = And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said: 'These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	ccomp	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fro	fro	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **stand** | past | the man |  |  | the myrtle trees |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among tree=Location |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | These | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **send** | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **walk** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through earth=Trajectory |

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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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וַיַּ֗עַן הָאִ֛ישׁ הָעֹמֵ֥ד בֵּין־הַהַדַסִּ֖יםוַיֹּאמַ֑ר אֵ֚לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁלַ֣ח יְהוָ֔ה לְהִתְהַלֵּ֖ךְ בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

[Zechariah 1:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.1.10/)

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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:9` 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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