Zechariah 4:12 · JPS 1917
And I answered the second time, and said unto him: 'What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that empty the golden oil out of themselves?'
Who acts: I, two olive branches, two golden spouts · What happens: answer, say, be, empty · To what, where: two olive branches, two golden spouts, golden oil · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Zechariah 4:12 · 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, two olive branches, two golden spouts), 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 answered | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 branches | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 branches | cop |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 branches | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 branches | nummod |
| 18 | olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 branches | compound |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spouts | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 spouts | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 spouts | cop |
| 23 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 27 spouts | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spouts | det |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 spouts | nummod |
| 26 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 spouts | amod |
| 27 | spouts | spout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 branches | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 empty | punct |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 empty | nsubj |
| 30 | empty | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 spouts | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 oil | det |
| 32 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 oil | amod |
| 33 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 empty | obj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 themselves | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 themselves | case |
| 36 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 empty | obl |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | I | time | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I not said here | unto lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this two olive branches | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | this two olive branches | the two golden spouts | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | empty | present | the two golden spouts | the golden oil | out spouts = spout | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent oil=Theme out themselves=Source |
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
וָאַ֣עַן שֵׁנִ֔ית וָאֹמַ֖ר אֵלָ֑יו מַה־שְׁתֵּ֞י שִׁבֲּלֵ֣י הַזֵּיתִ֗ים אֲשֶׁר֙ בְּיַ֗ד שְׁנֵי֙ צַנְתְּר֣וֹת הַזָּהָ֔ב הַֽמְרִיקִ֥ים מֵעֲלֵיהֶ֖ם הַזָּהָֽב׃
Zechariah 4:12: 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:55 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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