Judges 6:2 · JPS 1917
And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.
Who acts: hand, children, dens · What happens: prevail, make, be · To what, where: Israel, dens, them, mountains
This is Judges 6:2 · 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 (hand, children, dens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 prevailed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hand | det |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prevailed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Midian | case |
| 5 | Midian | Midian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hand | nmod |
| 6 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 Israel | case |
| 8 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 prevailed | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 11 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 Midian | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 because | fixed |
| 13 | Midian | Midian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Israel | case |
| 17 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 children | nmod |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prevailed | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dens | det |
| 21 | dens | den | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 mountains | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 mountains | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mountains | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mountains | det |
| 26 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dens | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 caves | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 caves | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 caves | det |
| 30 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dens | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 strongholds | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 strongholds | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 strongholds | det |
| 34 | strongholds | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dens | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prevailed | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | past | the hand of Midian | Israel | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against israel=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the children of Israel | the dens and the caves and the strongholds | them = they | because Midian | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary den=Product | ||
| 3 | is | present | the dens and the caves and the strongholds | the mountains | tree rules |
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
וַתָּ֥עָז יַד־מִדְיָ֖ן עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מִפְּנֵ֨י מִדְיָ֜ן עָשֽׂוּ לָהֶ֣ם ׀ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֶת־הַמִּנְהָרוֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בֶּֽהָרִ֔ים וְאֶת־הַמְּעָר֖וֹת וְאֶת־הַמְּצָדֽוֹת׃
Judges 6:2: 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:160 of Mova's parse database.
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