Judges 9:8 · JPS 1917

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree: Reign thou over us.

Who acts: trees, thou · What happens: go, anoint, say, reign · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 9:8 · 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 (trees, thou), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 anoint	mark
9	anoint	anoint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anoint	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 anoint	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
18	unto	unto	ADP	_	22 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
20	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 olive	punct
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Reign	punct
24	Reign	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 Reign	nsubj
26	over	over	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 Reign	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the trees		time	forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	anoint	to-infinitive	the trees not said here	a king		over trees = tree	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent king=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	trees = tree			unto the olive tree	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	reign	infinitive	thou			over us	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

הָל֤וֹךְ הָֽלְכוּ֙ הָעֵצִ֔ים לִמְשֹׁ֥חַ עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מֶ֑לֶךְ וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ לַזַּ֖יִת מָלְכָ֥ה עָלֵֽינוּ׃

Judges 9:8: 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:268 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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