Zechariah 11:12 · JPS 1917
And I said unto them: 'If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear.' So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.
Who acts: I, ye, peoples · What happens: say, think, give, forbear, weigh · To what, where: hire, me, thirty pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Zechariah 11:12 · 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 (I, ye, peoples), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 8 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 think | mark |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | advcl |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 think | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hire | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hire | hire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 forbear | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 forbear | cc |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 not | mark |
| 20 | not | not | ADV | Polarity=Neg | 22 forbear | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 not | punct |
| 22 | forbear | forbear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 give | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 25 | So | so | ADV | _ | 27 weighed | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 weighed | nsubj |
| 27 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 hire | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hire | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hire | hire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 weighed | obl |
| 31 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 pieces | nummod |
| 32 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 weighed | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 silver | case |
| 34 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pieces | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | unto peoples = people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | present | ye | good property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | my hire | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | forbear | infinitive | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | weigh | past | peoples = people | thirty pieces of silver | for my hire | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme piece=Value |
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
וָאֹמַ֣ר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם אִם־ט֧וֹב בְּעֵינֵיכֶ֛ם הָב֥וּ שְׂכָרִ֖י וְאִם־לֹ֣א ׀ חֲדָ֑לוּ וַיִּשְׁקְל֥וּ אֶת־שְׂכָרִ֖י שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים כָּֽסֶף׃
Zechariah 11:12: 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:167 of Mova's parse database.
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