Zechariah 6:4 · JPS 1917
Then I answered and said unto the angel that spoke with me: 'What are these, my lord?'
Who acts: I, angel · What happens: answer, say, speak, be · To what, where: these · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Zechariah 6:4 · 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, angel), 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 | 3 answered | advmod |
| 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 6 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 angel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 angel | det |
| 8 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 angel | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 spoke | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 these | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 What | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 these | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 these | cop |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lord | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lord | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 these | vocative |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 these | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 these | 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 | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I not said here | unto the angel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the angel | with me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | these | my lord vocative | tree rules |
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
וָאַ֙עַן֙ וָֽאֹמַ֔ר אֶל־הַמַּלְאָ֖ךְ הַדֹּבֵ֣ר בִּ֑י מָה־אֵ֖לֶּה אֲדֹנִֽי׃
Zechariah 6:4: 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:72 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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