Judges 5:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Who acts: wheels · What happens: tarry
This is Judges 5:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (wheels), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 tarry | advmod |
| 2 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wheels | det |
| 4 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tarry | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chariots | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chariots | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wheels | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 tarry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tarry | infinitive | the wheels of Sisera's chariots | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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
בְּעַד֩ הַחַלּ֨וֹן נִשְׁקְפָ֧ה וַתְּיַבֵּ֛ב אֵ֥ם סִֽיסְרָ֖א בְּעַ֣ד הָֽאֶשְׁנָ֑ב מַדּ֗וּעַ בֹּשֵׁ֤שׁ רִכְבּוֹ֙ לָב֔וֹא מַדּ֣וּעַ אֶֽחֱר֔וּ פַּעֲמֵ֖י מַרְכְּבוֹתָֽיו׃
Judges 5:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Through the window she looked forth, and peered, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming?
- Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JDG:153 of Mova's parse database.
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