--- title: Zephaniah 3:15 (JPS 1917) — The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, He hath cast out thine enemy… · tree and pragmatics description: The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, He hath cast out thine enemy; The King of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not fear evil any more. Who acts: LORD, King, thou, thy. 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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, King, thou, thy), 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:49 # text = The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, He hath cast out thine enemy; The King of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not fear evil any more. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 away away ADV RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 judgments judgment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 cast cast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 12 out out ADV RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 16 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 33 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 36 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 any any ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take away** | present · perfect | the LORD | thy judgments | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme | | 2 | **cast out** | present · perfect | LORD | thine enemy | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Product | | 3 | **is** | present | the King of Israel | | | the midst | | of thee | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **fear** | shall | thou | evil | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus | | 5 | **judge** | | thy | | | | | | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} הֵסִ֤יר יְהוָה֙ מִשְׁפָּטַ֔יִךְ פִּנָּ֖ה אֹֽיְבֵ֑ךְ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל ׀ יְהוָה֙ בְּקִרְבֵּ֔ךְ לֹא־תִֽירְאִ֥י רָ֖ע עֽוֹד׃ [Zephaniah 3:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEP:49` 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 3:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.48/) - next →: [Zephaniah 3:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.50/) - ↑ back to [Zephaniah 3:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.15/)