--- title: Zephaniah 2:12 (JPS 1917) — Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by My sword. · tree and pragmatics description: Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by My sword. Who acts: sword. Zephaniah 2:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Zephaniah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP/) / [chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP/2/) / [2:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.12/) / JPS 1 # Zephaniah 2:12 · JPS 1917 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by My sword. **Who acts:** sword · **What happens:** slay · **To what, where:** ye This is Zephaniah 2:12 · 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 (sword), 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:30 # text = Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by My sword. 1 Ye ye DET PRP Number=Plur|PronType=Prs|Style=Vrnc 2 det _ _ 2 Ethiopians Ethiopian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 dislocated _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 slain slay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:agent _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slay** | shall · passive | My sword | ye | | | | ye Ethiopians *dislocated* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | 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} גַּם־אַתֶּ֣ם כּוּשִׁ֔ים חַֽלְלֵ֥י חַרְבִּ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃ [Zephaniah 2:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEP:30` 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. - ← previous: [Zephaniah 2:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.29/) - next →: [Zephaniah 2:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.31/) - ↑ back to [Zephaniah 2:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.12/)