Judges 14:4 שֹׁפְטִים

Who acts: father, it, Samson · What happens: not know, be, seek · To what, where: occasion, Philistines · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Judges 14:4 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 — father, it, Samson — and what happens in the verse to occasion, Philistines, 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.

וְאָבִ֨יו וְאִמּ֜וֹ לֹ֣א יָדְע֗וּ כִּ֤י מֵיְהוָה֙ הִ֔יא כִּי־תֹאֲנָ֥ה הֽוּא־מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ מִפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וּבָעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔יא פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים מֹשְׁלִ֥ים בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ

But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	8 יָדְע֗וּ	cc	and
2	אָבִ֨י	אָב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 יָדְע֗וּ	nsubj	father
3	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 אָבִ֨י	nmod:poss	his
4	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	5 אִמּ	cc	and
5	אִמּ	אֵם	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	2 אָבִ֨י	conj	mother
6	֜וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 אִמּ	nmod:poss	his
7	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	8 יָדְע֗וּ	advmod	not
8	יָדְע֗וּ	יָדַע	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they knew
9	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	11 יְהוָה֙	mark	(dm) that
10	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	11 יְהוָה֙	case	[was] from
11	יְהוָה֙	יהוה	PROPN	_	8 יָדְע֗וּ	ccomp	Yahweh
12	הִ֔יא	הִיא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 יְהוָה֙	nsubj	it
13	כִּי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	16 מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ	mark	(dm)
14	תֹאֲנָ֥ה	תֹּאֲנָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	16 מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ	obj	an occasion
15	הֽוּא־	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ	nsubj	he
16	מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing	8 יָדְע֗וּ	advcl	[was] seeking
17	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	18 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים	case	from [the]
18	פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים	פְּלִשְׁתִּי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	16 מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ	obl	Philistines
19	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	26 מֹשְׁלִ֥ים	cc	and
20	בָ	בְּ	ADP	_	22 עֵ֣ת	case	at
21	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 עֵ֣ת	det	the
22	עֵ֣ת	עֵת	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 מֹשְׁלִ֥ים	obl	time
23	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	24 הִ֔יא	det	(the)
24	הִ֔יא	הִיא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 עֵ֣ת	det	that
25	פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים	פְּלִשְׁתִּי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	26 מֹשְׁלִ֥ים	nsubj	[the] Philistines
26	מֹשְׁלִ֥ים	מָשַׁל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	8 יָדְע֗וּ	conj	[were] ruling
27	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	28 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל	case	over
28	יִשְׂרָאֵֽל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	26 מֹשְׁלִ֥ים	obl	Israel
29	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	28 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל	punct
30	פ	פ	PUNCT	_	28 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
not יָדְעוּ they knew	qatal · qal	אָבִי father + אִמּ mother	יְהוָה Yahweh
מְבַקֵּשׁ [was] seeking	participle active · piel	הֽוּא־ he	תֹאֲנָה an occasion
מֹשְׁלִים [were] ruling	participle active · qal	פְּלִשְׁתִּים [the] Philistines

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

וַאֲבוּהִי וְאִמֵיהּ לָא יָדְעִין אֲרֵי מִן קֳדָם יְיָ הוּא אֲרֵי תוּסְקָפָא הוּא בָעֵי לְאִתְגְרָאָה בִּפְלִשְׁתָּאֵי וּבְעִידָנָא הַהִיא פְּלִשְׁתָּאֵי שַׁלְטִין בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל:

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:403.

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