Judges 8:19 · JPS 1917
And he said: 'They were my brethren, the sons of my mother; as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.'
Who acts: Gideon, men, LORD, ye, I · What happens: say, be, live, save, not slay · To what, where: brethren, men, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 8:19 · 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, men, LORD, ye), 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 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 brethren | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 brethren | punct |
| 6 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brethren | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brethren | cop |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sons | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sons | det |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brethren | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mother | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sons | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 liveth | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 liveth | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 LORD | det |
| 19 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 liveth | nsubj |
| 20 | liveth | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 slay | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saved | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 saved | mark |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 saved | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saved | aux |
| 25 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 slay | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saved | obj |
| 27 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 saved | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saved | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 slay | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 slay | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 slay | advmod |
| 32 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 slay | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Gideon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | men = man | my brethren | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present | the LORD | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | save a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | ye | men = man | alive property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | not slay | would | I | you | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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
וַיֹּאמַ֕ר אַחַ֥י בְּנֵֽי־אִמִּ֖י הֵ֑ם חַי־יְהוָ֗ה ל֚וּ הַחֲיִתֶ֣ם אוֹתָ֔ם לֹ֥א הָרַ֖גְתִּי אֶתְכֶֽם׃
Judges 8:19: 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:243 of Mova's parse database.
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