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title: Zephaniah 1:13 (JPS 1917) — Therefore their wealth shall become a booty, and their houses a deso… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore their wealth shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation; yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof. Who acts: wealth, lees. Zephaniah 1:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Zephaniah 1:13 · JPS 1917

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Therefore their wealth shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation; yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.

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**Who acts:** wealth, lees · **What happens:** become, build, not inhabit, plant, not drink · **To what, where:** booty, houses, lees, vineyards, wine

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This is Zephaniah 1:13 · 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 (wealth, lees), 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:ZEP:12
# text = Therefore their wealth shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation; yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	booty	booty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	desolation	desolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	orphan	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
20	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	inhabit	inhabit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
32	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | shall | lees's wealth | a booty |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | shall | lees *= lee* | houses |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 3 | **not** **inhabit** | shall | lees *= lee* *not said here* | lees *= lee* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **plant** | shall | lees *= lee* | vineyards |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vineyard=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **drink** | shall | lees *= lee* *not said here* | the wine |  |  |  | thereof *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=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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וְהָיָ֤ה חֵילָם֙ לִמְשִׁסָּ֔ה וּבָתֵּיהֶ֖ם לִשְׁמָמָ֑ה וּבָנ֤וּ בָתִּים֙ וְלֹ֣א יֵשֵׁ֔בוּ וְנָטְע֣וּ כְרָמִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א יִשְׁתּ֖וּ אֶת־יֵינָֽם׃

[Zephaniah 1:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.1.13/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEP:12` 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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