Judges 8:16 · JPS 1917

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

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

This is Judges 8:16 · 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 (Gideon), 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 took	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 elders	det
5	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 elders	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thorns	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thorns	cc
11	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 elders	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 wilderness	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wilderness	det
14	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thorns	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 briers	cc
16	briers	brier	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thorns	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taught	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 taught	cc
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 taught	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 taught	nsubj
22	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 men	det
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 taught	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Succoth	case
26	Succoth	Succoth	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 men	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Gideon	the elders of the city and thorns of the wilderness and briers					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elder=Theme
2	teach speech: other	past	Gideon		the men of Succoth			with elders = elder	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient

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

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

Judges 8:16: 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:240 of Mova's parse database.

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