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title: Zechariah 7:5 (JPS 1917) — 'Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying:… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me? Who acts: you, ye. Zechariah 7:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Zechariah 7:5 · JPS 1917

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'Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me?

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**Who acts:** you, ye · **What happens:** speak, say, fast, mourn · **To what, where:** fifth, Me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 7:5 · 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, ye), 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:90
# text = 'Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fasted	fast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumType=Ord	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
34	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
37	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
38	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nsubj	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	all	all	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	fast	fast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
42	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	even	even	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

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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 all people of the land and the priests | 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 |
| 3 | **fast** | past | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mourn** | past | ye *not said here* |  |  | the fifth and the seventh month | year |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **fast** | past · do-support | ye |  | Me |  |  | unto Me; all *property* | 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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אֱמֹר֙ אֶל־כָּל־עַ֣ם הָאָ֔רֶץ וְאֶל־הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים לֵאמֹ֑ר כִּֽי־צַמְתֶּ֨ם וְסָפ֜וֹד בַּחֲמִישִׁ֣י וּבַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י וְזֶה֙ שִׁבְעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה הֲצ֥וֹם צַמְתֻּ֖נִי אָֽנִי׃

[Zechariah 7:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.7.5/)

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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:90` of Mova's parse database.

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