Judges 14:18 שֹׁפְטִים

Who acts: men, sun, ye, my · What happens: say, go down, be, not plow, not find out, riddle · To what, where: riddle · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Judges 14:18 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — men, sun, ye, my — and what happens in the verse to riddle, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 21 chapters of Judges on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ לוֹ֩ אַנְשֵׁ֨י הָעִ֜יר בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י בְּטֶ֙רֶם֙ יָבֹ֣א הַחַ֔רְסָה מַה־מָּת֣וֹק מִדְּבַ֔שׁ וּמֶ֥ה עַ֖ז מֵאֲרִ֑י וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֔ם לוּלֵא֙ חֲרַשְׁתֶּ֣ם בְּעֶגְלָתִ֔י לֹ֥א מְצָאתֶ֖ם חִידָתִֽי׃

And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יֹּ֣אמְרוּ	cc	and
2	יֹּ֣אמְרוּ	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they said
3	ל	לְ	ADP	_	4 וֹ֩	case	to
4	וֹ֩	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 יֹּ֣אמְרוּ	obl	him
5	אַנְשֵׁ֨י	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יֹּ֣אמְרוּ	nsubj	the men
6	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	7 עִ֜יר	det	of
7	עִ֜יר	עִיר	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	5 אַנְשֵׁ֨י	compound:smixut	the city
8	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	10 יּ֣וֹם	case	on
9	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 יּ֣וֹם	det	the
10	יּ֣וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֹּ֣אמְרוּ	obl	day
11	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	12 שְּׁבִיעִ֗י	det	(the)
12	שְּׁבִיעִ֗י	שְׁבִיעִי	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	10 יּ֣וֹם	nummod	seventh
13	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	14 טֶ֙רֶם֙	case	before
14	טֶ֙רֶם֙	טֶרֶם	ADV	_	15 יָבֹ֣א	nmod
15	יָבֹ֣א	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יֹּ֣אמְרוּ	ccomp	it went
16	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	17 חַ֔רְס	det	(to)
17	חַ֔רְס	חֶרֶס	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 יָבֹ֣א	nsubj	the
18	ָה	ה	X	_	17 חַ֔רְס	nmod	sun
19	מַה־	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	20 מָּת֣וֹק	nsubj	what?
20	מָּת֣וֹק	מָתוֹק	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יֹּ֣אמְרוּ	ccomp	[is] sweet
21	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	22 דְּבַ֔שׁ	case	more
22	דְּבַ֔שׁ	דְּבַשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 מָּת֣וֹק	obl	than honey
23	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	25 עַ֖ז	cc	and
24	מֶ֥ה	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	25 עַ֖ז	nsubj	what?
25	עַ֖ז	עַז	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 מָּת֣וֹק	conj	[is] strong
26	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	27 אֲרִ֑י	case	more
27	אֲרִ֑י	אֲרִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	25 עַ֖ז	obl	than a lion
28	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	29 יֹּ֣אמֶר	cc	and
29	יֹּ֣אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יֹּ֣אמְרוּ	conj	he said
30	ל	לְ	ADP	_	31 ָהֶ֔ם	case	to
31	ָהֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 יֹּ֣אמֶר	obl	them
32	לוּלֵא֙	לוּלֵא	CCONJ	_	33 חֲרַשְׁתֶּ֣ם	cc	if not
33	חֲרַשְׁתֶּ֣ם	חָרַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=2	2 יֹּ֣אמְרוּ	conj	you had plowed
34	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	35 עֶגְלָת	case	with
35	עֶגְלָת	עֶגְלָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	33 חֲרַשְׁתֶּ֣ם	obl	heifer
36	ִ֔י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 עֶגְלָת	nmod:poss	my
37	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	38 מְצָאתֶ֖ם	advmod	not
38	מְצָאתֶ֖ם	מָצָא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=2	2 יֹּ֣אמְרוּ	parataxis	you found out
39	חִידָת	חִידָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	38 מְצָאתֶ֖ם	obj	riddle
40	ִֽי	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 חִידָת	nmod:poss	my
41	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	40 ִֽי	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: yes
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יֹּאמְרוּ they said	wayyiqtol · qal	אַנְשֵׁי the men
יָבֹא it went	yiqtol · qal	חַרְס the
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal
חֲרַשְׁתֶּם you had plowed	qatal · qal	אַנְשֵׁי the men
not מְצָאתֶם you found out	qatal · qal	אַנְשֵׁי the men	חִידָת riddle

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Jonathan

וַאֲמַרוּ לֵיהּ אֱנָשֵׁי קַרְתָּא בְּיוֹמָא שְׁבִיעָאָה עַד לָא מֵעַל שִׁמְשָׁא מַה חַלֵי מִדוּבְשָׁא וּמַה תַּקִיף מֵאַרְיָא וַאֲמַר לְהוֹן אִילוּלָפוֹן בְּדַקְתּוּן בְּאִתְּתִי לָא אַשְׁכַּחְתּוּן חוּדָתִי:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:JDG:417.

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