Judges 9:3 · JPS 1917
And his mother's brethren spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words; and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said: 'He is our brother.'
Who acts: brethren, hearts, son · What happens: speak, incline, follow, say, be · To what, where: words, ears, Abimelech, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 9:3 · 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 (brethren, hearts, son), 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 spoke | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 mother | case |
| 5 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spoke | nsubj |
| 6 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spoke | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ears | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ears | det |
| 11 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spoke | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 men | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ears | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Shechem | case |
| 17 | Shechem | Shechem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 men | nmod |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 words | det:predet |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 words | det |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spoke | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 inclined | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 inclined | cc |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 inclined | nsubj |
| 25 | inclined | incline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoke | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 follow | mark |
| 27 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 inclined | xcomp |
| 28 | Abimelech | Abimelech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 follow | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 said | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 said | nsubj |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoke | advcl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 brother | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 brother | punct |
| 35 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 brother | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 brother | cop |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 brother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 brother | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | son's mother's brethren | all words | the ears of all men of Shechem | of son | tree rules | ||
| 2 | incline | past | men's hearts | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | men's hearts not said here | Abimelech | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abimelech=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | brethren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | son | our brother | 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
וַיְדַבְּר֨וּ אֲחֵֽי־אִמּ֜וֹ עָלָ֗יו בְּאָזְנֵי֙ כָּל־בַּעֲלֵ֣י שְׁכֶ֔ם אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וַיֵּ֤ט לִבָּם֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י אֲבִימֶ֔לֶךְ כִּ֥י אָמְר֖וּ אָחִ֥ינוּ הֽוּא׃
Judges 9:3: 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:263 of Mova's parse database.
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