Zechariah 7:11 · JPS 1917

But they refused to attend, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

Who acts: widow · What happens: refuse, not attend, turn, stop, not hear · To what, where: stubborn shoulder, ears

This is Zechariah 7:11 · 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 (widow), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 refused	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 refused	nsubj
3	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 attend	mark
5	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refused	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 turned	cc
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 refused	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shoulder	det
10	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shoulder	amod
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stopped	cc
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 refused	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ears	nmod:poss
16	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stopped	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 hear	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hear	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hear	advmod
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stopped	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 refused	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	refuse	past	widow		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not attend	to-infinitive	widow not said here		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	turn	past	widow not said here	a stubborn shoulder	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme
4	stop	past	widow not said here	widow's ears	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality ear=Eventuality
5	not hear	might	widow		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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

וַיְמָאֲנ֣וּ לְהַקְשִׁ֔יב וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ כָתֵ֖ף סֹרָ֑רֶת וְאָזְנֵיהֶ֖ם הִכְבִּ֥ידוּ מִשְּׁמֽוֹעַ׃

Zechariah 7:11: 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:96 of Mova's parse database.

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