Judges 8:16 שֹׁפְטִים

Who acts: Gideon · What happens: take, teach · To what, where: elders, men

This is Judges 8:16 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 — Gideon — and what happens in the verse to elders, men, 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.

וַיִּקַּח֙ אֶת־זִקְנֵ֣י הָעִ֔יר וְאֶת־קוֹצֵ֥י הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר וְאֶת־הַֽבַּרְקֳנִ֑ים וַיֹּ֣דַע בָּהֶ֔ם אֵ֖ת אַנְשֵׁ֥י סֻכּֽוֹת׃

And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

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 יִּקַּח֙	cc	and
2	יִּקַּח֙	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he took
3	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	4 זִקְנֵ֣י	case	(et)
4	זִקְנֵ֣י	זָקֵן	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יִּקַּח֙	obj	the elders
5	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 עִ֔יר	det	of
6	עִ֔יר	עִיר	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	4 זִקְנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	the city
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 קוֹצֵ֥י	cc	and
8	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	9 קוֹצֵ֥י	case	(et)
9	קוֹצֵ֥י	קוֹץ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 זִקְנֵ֣י	conj	the thorns
10	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 מִּדְבָּ֖ר	det	of
11	מִּדְבָּ֖ר	מִדְבָּר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 קוֹצֵ֥י	compound:smixut	the wilderness
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 בַּרְקֳנִ֑ים	cc	and
13	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	15 בַּרְקֳנִ֑ים	case	(et)
14	הַֽ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 בַּרְקֳנִ֑ים	det	the
15	בַּרְקֳנִ֑ים	בַּרְקָנִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 זִקְנֵ֣י	conj	briers
16	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	17 יֹּ֣דַע	cc	and
17	יֹּ֣דַע	יָדַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּקַּח֙	conj	he taught
18	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	19 ָהֶ֔ם	case	with
19	ָהֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 יֹּ֣דַע	obl	them
20	אֵ֖ת	אֵת	ADP	_	21 אַנְשֵׁ֥י	case	(et)
21	אַנְשֵׁ֥י	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	17 יֹּ֣דַע	obj	the men
22	סֻכּֽוֹת	סֻכּוֹת	PROPN	_	21 אַנְשֵׁ֥י	compound:smixut	of Succoth
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	22 סֻכּֽוֹת	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
יִּקַּח he took	wayyiqtol · qal		זִקְנֵי the elders + קוֹצֵי the thorns + בַּרְקֳנִים briers
יֹּדַע he taught	wayyiqtol · hiphil	אַנְשֵׁי the men

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

וּדְבַר יַת סָבֵי קַרְתָּא וְיַת כּוּבֵי מַדְבְּרָא וְיַת בַּרְקָנַיָא וְתַבַּר עֲלֵיהוֹן יַת אֱנָשֵׁי סֻכּוֹת:

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 he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

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:225.

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