Judges 9:4 · JPS 1917

And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

Who acts: hearts, Abimelech, vain fellows · What happens: give, hire, follow · To what, where: threescore pieces, son, house, vain fellows

This is Judges 9:4 · 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 (hearts, Abimelech, vain fellows), 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 gave	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	threescore	threescore	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pieces	nummod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ten	cc
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 threescore	conj
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 silver	case
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pieces	nmod
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 house	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 berith	case
16	Baal	Baal	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 berith	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 berith	punct
18	berith	berith	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hired	punct
20	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	PronType=Int	22 hired	obl
21	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 hired	nsubj
22	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 house	acl:relcl
23	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fellows	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 light	cc
25	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 vain	conj
26	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hired	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 followed	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 followed	nsubj
29	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fellows	acl:relcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 followed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	hearts = heart	threescore pieces of silver	son	the house of Baal berith	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme
2	hire	past	Abimelech	vain fellows			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme
3	follow	past	vain fellows	son			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

וַיִּתְּנוּ־לוֹ֙ שִׁבְעִ֣ים כֶּ֔סֶף מִבֵּ֖יתּבַ֣עַל בְּרִ֑יתבַ֣עַל בְּרִ֑ית וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֨ר בָּהֶ֜ם אֲבִימֶ֗לֶךְ אֲנָשִׁ֤ים רֵיקִים֙ וּפֹ֣חֲזִ֔ים וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ אַחֲרָֽיו׃

Judges 9:4: 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:264 of Mova's parse database.

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