Zechariah 1:1 · JPS 1917

IN THE eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:

Who acts: word, Zechariah · What happens: come, say, word · To what, where: LORD · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Zechariah 1:1 · 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 (word, Zechariah), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	IN	in	ADP	_	4 month	case
2	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 month	det
3	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 month	amod
4	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 year	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Darius	case
11	Darius	Darius	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 year	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 year	punct
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 word	det
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 LORD	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 LORD	det
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 word	nmod
19	unto	unto	ADP	_	20 Zechariah	case
20	Zechariah	Zechariah	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Zechariah	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Berechiah	case
24	Berechiah	Berechiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 son	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 son	det
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Iddo	case
29	Iddo	Iddo	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 prophet	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 prophet	det
32	prophet	prophet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 son	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saying	punct
34	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 Zechariah	acl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the word of the LORD		month; year	unto Zechariah	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Zechariah not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	word			the LORD			nom word «communication transitive»: of=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

בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ הַשְּׁמִינִ֔י בִּשְׁנַ֥ת שְׁתַּ֖יִם לְדָרְיָ֑וֶשׁ הָיָ֣ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֗ה אֶל־זְכַרְיָה֙ בֶּן־בֶּ֣רֶכְיָ֔ה בֶּן־עִדּ֥וֹ הַנָּבִ֖יא לֵאמֹֽר׃

Zechariah 1:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ZEC:0 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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