Zechariah 4:5 · JPS 1917
Then the angel that spoke with me answered and said unto me: 'Knowest thou not what these are?' And I said: 'No, my lord.'
Who acts: angel, thou, these, I · What happens: speak, answer, say, not know, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Zechariah 4:5 · 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 (angel, thou, these, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 answered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 angel | det |
| 3 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angel | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | obl |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 11 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Knowest | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Knowest | punct |
| 15 | Knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 Knowest | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 Knowest | advmod |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 Knowest | ccomp |
| 19 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 what | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | cop |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 Knowest | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Knowest | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 lord | punct |
| 28 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 31 lord | discourse |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 No | punct |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lord | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 lord | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, polarity=none, form=q
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the angel | with me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the angel | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the angel not said here | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not know | present | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | these | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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
וַ֠יַּעַן הַמַּלְאָ֞ךְ הַדֹּבֵ֥ר בִּי֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י הֲל֥וֹא יָדַ֖עְתָּ מָה־הֵ֣מָּה אֵ֑לֶּה וָאֹמַ֖ר לֹ֥א אֲדֹנִֽי׃
Zechariah 4:5: 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:48 of Mova's parse database.
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