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title: Zephaniah 3:16 (JPS 1917) — In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: 'Fear thou not; O Zion, l… · tree and pragmatics
description: In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: 'Fear thou not; O Zion, let not thy hands be slack. Who acts: thou, hands. Zephaniah 3:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zephaniah 3:16 · JPS 1917

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In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: 'Fear thou not; O Zion, let not thy hands be slack.

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**Who acts:** thou, hands · **What happens:** say, not fear, let, not be · **To what, where:** evil, Jerusalem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Zephaniah 3:16 · 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 (thou, hands), 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:50
# text = In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: 'Fear thou not; O Zion, let not thy hands be slack.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	slack	slack	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall · passive |  | evil | Jerusalem |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fear** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | Zion *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | infinitive | thy hands |  |  |  |  | slack *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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בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא יֵאָמֵ֥ר לִירֽוּשָׁלִַ֖ם אַל־תִּירָ֑אִי צִיּ֖וֹן אַל־יִרְפּ֥וּ יָדָֽיִךְ׃

[Zephaniah 3:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.16/)

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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:50` 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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