Judges 8:21 · JPS 1917

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said: 'Rise thou, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength.' And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

Who acts: Zebah, thou, Gideon, crescents · What happens: say, rise, fall, be, arise, slay · To what, where: man, strength, Zebah, crescents, necks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 8:21 · 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 (Zebah, thou, Gideon, crescents), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	Zebah	Zebah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Zalmunna	cc
4	Zalmunna	Zalmunna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Zebah	conj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Rise	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Rise	punct
8	Rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 Rise	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fall	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fall	cc
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Rise	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fall	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 strength	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 strength	mark
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 man	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 strength	advcl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 man	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 strength	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 strength	advmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 strength	cop
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 strength	nmod:poss
25	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Rise	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 strength	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 strength	punct
28	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 arose	cc
29	Gideon	Gideon	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 arose	nsubj
30	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 slew	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 slew	cc
33	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 arose	conj
34	Zebah	Zebah	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 slew	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Zalmunna	cc
36	Zalmunna	Zalmunna	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Zebah	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 took	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 took	cc
39	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 arose	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 crescents	det
41	crescents	crescent	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 took	obj
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 necks	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 necks	cop
44	on	on	ADP	_	48 necks	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 camels	nmod:poss
46	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 necks	nmod:poss
47	'	's	PART	_	46 camels	case
48	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 crescents	acl:relcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Zebah and Zalmunna			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rise	infinitive	thou					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	infinitive	thou not said here				upon us	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon we=Location
4	is a	present		the man				tree rules
5	is a	present		Gideon's strength				tree rules
6	arise	past	Gideon					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	slay	past	Gideon not said here	Zebah and Zalmunna				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zebah=Patient
8	take	past	Gideon not said here	the crescents				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crescent=Theme
9	is	past	the crescents		men's camels's necks			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

וַיֹּ֜אמֶר זֶ֣בַח וְצַלְמֻנָּ֗ע ק֤וּם אַתָּה֙ וּפְגַע־בָּ֔נוּ כִּ֥י כָאִ֖ישׁ גְּבוּרָת֑וֹ וַיָּ֣קָם גִּדְע֗וֹן וַֽיַּהֲרֹג֙ אֶת־זֶ֣בַח וְאֶת־צַלְמֻנָּ֔ע וַיִּקַּח֙ אֶת־הַשַּׂ֣הֲרֹנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּצַוְּארֵ֥י גְמַלֵּיהֶֽם׃

Judges 8:21: 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:245 of Mova's parse database.

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