Judges 21:23 שֹׁפְטִים

Who acts: children · What happens: do, take, accord, dance, carry off, go · To what, where: wives, children, cities

This is Judges 21:23 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 — children — and what happens in the verse to wives, children, cities, 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.

וַיַּֽעֲשׂוּ־כֵן֙ בְּנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֔ן וַיִּשְׂא֤וּ נָשִׁים֙ לְמִסְפָּרָ֔ם מִן־הַמְּחֹלְל֖וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר גָּזָ֑לוּ וַיֵּלְכ֗וּ וַיָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙ אֶל־נַ֣חֲלָתָ֔ם וַיִּבְנוּ֙ אֶת־הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ בָּהֶֽם׃

And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off; and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.

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 יַּֽעֲשׂוּ־	cc	and
2	יַּֽעֲשׂוּ־	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they did
3	כֵן֙	כֵּן	ADV	_	2 יַּֽעֲשׂוּ־	advmod	thus
4	בְּנֵ֣י	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יַּֽעֲשׂוּ־	nsubj	the descendants
5	בִנְיָמִ֔ן	בִּנְיָמִן	PROPN	_	4 בְּנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of Benjamin
6	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	7 יִּשְׂא֤וּ	cc	and
7	יִּשְׂא֤וּ	נָשָׂא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יַּֽעֲשׂוּ־	conj	they carried off
8	נָשִׁים֙	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	7 יִּשְׂא֤וּ	obj	wives
9	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	10 מִסְפָּר	case	to
10	מִסְפָּר	מִסְפָּר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 יִּשְׂא֤וּ	obl	number
11	ָ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 מִסְפָּר	nmod:poss	their
12	מִן־	מִן	ADP	_	14 מְּחֹלְל֖וֹת	case	from
13	הַ	הַ	SCONJ	_	14 מְּחֹלְל֖וֹת	mark	the
14	מְּחֹלְל֖וֹת	חוּל	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=POLEL Number=Plur	7 יִּשְׂא֤וּ	advcl	dancers
15	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	16 גָּזָ֑לוּ	mark	whom
16	גָּזָ֑לוּ	גָּזַל	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	14 מְּחֹלְל֖וֹת	acl:relcl	they seized
17	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 יֵּלְכ֗וּ	cc	and
18	יֵּלְכ֗וּ	הלך	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יַּֽעֲשׂוּ־	conj	they went
19	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	20 יָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙	cc	and
20	יָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙	שׁוּב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	18 יֵּלְכ֗וּ	conj	they returned
21	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	22 נַ֣חֲלָת	case	to
22	נַ֣חֲלָת	נַחֲלָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	20 יָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙	obl	inheritance
23	ָ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 נַ֣חֲלָת	nmod:poss	their
24	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	25 יִּבְנוּ֙	cc	and
25	יִּבְנוּ֙	בָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יַּֽעֲשׂוּ־	conj	they rebuilt
26	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	28 עָרִ֔ים	case	(et)
27	הֶ֣	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	28 עָרִ֔ים	det	the
28	עָרִ֔ים	עִיר	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	25 יִּבְנוּ֙	obj	cities
29	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	30 יֵּשְׁב֖וּ	cc	and
30	יֵּשְׁב֖וּ	יָשַׁב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	25 יִּבְנוּ֙	conj	they dwelt
31	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	32 ָהֶֽם	case	in
32	ָהֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 יֵּשְׁב֖וּ	obl	them
33	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	32 ָהֶֽם	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יַּֽעֲשׂוּ־ they did	wayyiqtol · qal	בְּנֵי the descendants
יִּשְׂאוּ they carried off	wayyiqtol · qal	בְּנֵי the descendants	נָשִׁים wives
גָּזָלוּ they seized	qatal · qal	בְּנֵי the descendants	מְּחֹלְלוֹת dancers
יֵּלְכוּ they went	wayyiqtol · qal	בְּנֵי the descendants
יָּשׁוּבוּ they returned	wayyiqtol · qal	בְּנֵי the descendants
יִּבְנוּ they rebuilt	wayyiqtol · qal	בְּנֵי the descendants	עָרִים cities
יֵּשְׁבוּ they dwelt	wayyiqtol · qal	בְּנֵי the descendants

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

וַעֲבָדוּ כֵּן בְּנֵי בִנְיָמִן וּנְסִיבוּ נְשִׁין לְמִנְיָנֵיהוֹן מִן חִנְגַיָא דִי אֲנָסוּ וַאֲזַלוּ וְתָבוּ לְאַחְסַנְתְּהוֹן וּבְנוֹ יַת קִרְוַיָא וִיתִיבוּ בְהוֹן:

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.

And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off; and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.

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:615.

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