Zechariah 3:8 · JPS 1917
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee; for they are men that are a sign; for, behold, I will bring forth My servant the Shoot.
Who acts: you, fellows, Joshua, men, I · What happens: hear, sit, be, bring · To what, where: thee, men, sign, servant
This is Zechariah 3:8 · 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 (you, fellows, Joshua, men), 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 | Hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Hear | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Joshua | punct |
| 4 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 Joshua | discourse |
| 5 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hear | vocative |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 priest | det |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 priest | amod |
| 8 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Joshua | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thou | punct |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 Joshua | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fellows | cc |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 fellows | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thou | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sit | nsubj |
| 15 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fellows | acl:relcl |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 thee | case |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 sit | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 men | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 men | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 men | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 men | cop |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hear | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 sign | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sign | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sign | det |
| 26 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 men | acl:relcl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 bring | punct |
| 28 | for | for | CCONJ | _ | 34 bring | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 behold | punct |
| 30 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 34 bring | discourse |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 behold | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 bring | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 bring | aux |
| 34 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hear | parataxis |
| 35 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 34 bring | advmod |
| 36 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 servant | nmod:poss |
| 37 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bring | obj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Shoot | det |
| 39 | Shoot | shoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 servant | appos |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | imperative | you not said here | now | Joshua vocative | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | sit | present | thy fellows | thee | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before thou=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Joshua | men | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | men | a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | future | I | My servant | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
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
שְֽׁמַֽע־נָ֞א יְהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ ׀ הַכֹּהֵ֣ן הַגָּד֗וֹל אַתָּה֙ וְרֵעֶ֙יךָ֙ הַיֹּשְׁבִ֣ים לְפָנֶ֔יךָ כִּֽי־אַנְשֵׁ֥י מוֹפֵ֖ת הֵ֑מָּה כִּֽי־הִנְנִ֥י מֵבִ֛יא אֶת־עַבְדִּ֖י צֶֽמַח׃
Zechariah 3:8: 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:41 of Mova's parse database.
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