Judges 8:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And he said unto them: 'What have I now done in comparison with you?
Who acts: Midian, I · What happens: say, do · To what, where: comparison · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 8:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Midian, I), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 done | obj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 done | advmod |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 comparison | case |
| 14 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 comparison | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Midian | unto men = man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | I | comparison with you | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם מֶה־עָשִׂ֥יתִי עַתָּ֖ה כָּכֶ֑ם הֲל֗וֹא ט֛וֹב עֹלְל֥וֹת אֶפְרַ֖יִם מִבְצִ֥יר אֲבִיעֶֽזֶר׃
Judges 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And he said unto them: 'What have I now done in comparison with you?
- Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JDG:225 of Mova's parse database.
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