Judges 5:8 · JPS 1917

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates; was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Who acts: rulers, war, shield · What happens: choose, be, see · To what, where: new gods, gates, shield

This is Judges 5:8 · 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 (rulers, war, shield), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gods	amod
4	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chose	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 was	advmod
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chose	parataxis
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 gates	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gates	det
11	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 was	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chose	parataxis
14	there	there	PRON	_	13 was	expl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 shield	det
16	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 spear	cc
18	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shield	conj
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 shield	acl
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 thousand	case
21	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 thousand	compound
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 seen	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 Israel	case
24	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 thousand	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	rulers = ruler	new gods				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
2	be	past	war		the gates	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gate=Location
3	be	past	a shield or spear		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	participle		a shield or spear not said here			among forty thousand in Israel	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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

יִבְחַר֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים חֲדָשִׁ֔ים אָ֖ז לָחֶ֣ם שְׁעָרִ֑ים מָגֵ֤ן אִם־יֵֽרָאֶה֙ וָרֹ֔מַח בְּאַרְבָּעִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Judges 5:8: 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:JDG:126 of Mova's parse database.

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