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title: Zechariah 7:9 (JPS 1917) — 'Thus hath the LORD of hosts spoken, saying: Execute true judgment,… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Thus hath the LORD of hosts spoken, saying: Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother; Who acts: LORD. Zechariah 7:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 7:9 · JPS 1917

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'Thus hath the LORD of hosts spoken, saying: Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother;

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** speak, say, execute, show · **To what, where:** true judgment, mercy, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zechariah 7:9 · 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 (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:94
# text = 'Thus hath the LORD of hosts spoken, saying: Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother;
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Execute	execute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the LORD of hosts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **execute** | infinitive |  | true judgment |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Patient |
| 4 | **show** | infinitive |  | mercy | LORD's brother |  |  | every man *obl:unmarked* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mercy=Topic to brother=Recipient |

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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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כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת לֵאמֹ֑ר מִשְׁפַּ֤ט אֱמֶת֙ שְׁפֹ֔טוּ וְחֶ֣סֶד וְרַֽחֲמִ֔ים עֲשׂ֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ אֶת־אָחִֽיו׃

[Zechariah 7:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.7.9/)

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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:94` 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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