Judges 9:25 · JPS 1917

And the men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them; and it was told Abimelech.

Who acts: men · What happens: set, rob, come, tell · To what, where: liers, wait, all, way, violence, Abimelech · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 9:25 · 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 (men), 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 set	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Shechem	case
5	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 men	nmod
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	liers	lier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	obj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 wait	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wait	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 in	punct
11	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 liers	nmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liers	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 tops	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tops	det
16	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mountains	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mountains	det
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tops	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 robbed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 robbed	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 robbed	nsubj
23	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 robbed	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 all	acl:relcl
27	along	along	ADP	_	29 way	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 robbed	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 told	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 told	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 told	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 told	aux:pass
36	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 set	conj
37	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 told	iobj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	the men of Shechem	liers		wait	for Shechem; on the tops of the mountains	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent lier=Theme on top=Destination
2	rob	past	men = man	all			by mountains = mountain	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Source
3	come	past				that way		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along way=Initial_Location
4	tell speech: assert	past · passive		violence	Abimelech			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient abimelech=Topic

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

וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ לוֹ֩ בַעֲלֵ֨י שְׁכֶ֜ם מְאָרְבִ֗ים עַ֚ל רָאשֵׁ֣י הֶהָרִ֔ים וַיִּגְזְל֗וּ אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־יַעֲבֹ֥ר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם בַּדָּ֑רֶךְ וַיֻּגַּ֖ד לַאֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃פ

Judges 9:25: 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:285 of Mova's parse database.

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