Judges 9:28 · JPS 1917

And Gaal the son of Ebed said: 'Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve ye the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?

Who acts: Gaal, Abimelech, we, ye · What happens: say, be, serve, not be · To what, where: Abimelech, Shechem, Gaal, son, men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 9:28 · 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 (Gaal, Abimelech, we, ye), 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	_	7 said	cc
2	Gaal	Gaal	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Gaal	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Ebed	case
6	Ebed	Ebed	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Abimelech	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 Abimelech	punct
10	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	12 Abimelech	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Abimelech	cop
12	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Shechem	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Shechem	cc
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	17 Shechem	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Shechem	cop
17	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Abimelech	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 serve	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 serve	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 serve	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 serve	aux
22	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Abimelech	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 serve	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 Abimelech	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 son	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 son	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 son	nsubj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 son	det
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Jerubbaal	case
31	Jerubbaal	Jerubbaal	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 son	nmod
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 son	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Zebul	cc
34	Zebul	Zebul	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 son	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 officer	nmod:poss
36	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Zebul	appos
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 Zebul	punct
38	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
39	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 serve	nsubj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 men	det
41	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 serve	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 Hamor	case
43	Hamor	Hamor	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 men	nmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 father	det
45	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 Hamor	appos
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 Shechem	case
47	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 father	nmod
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 serve	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 serve	cc
50	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	53 serve	advmod
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 serve	aux
52	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 serve	nsubj
53	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 serve	obj
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Gaal			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		Abimelech and Shechem		tree rules
3	is a	present	Abimelech and Shechem	Shechem		tree rules
4	serve	should	we	Gaal		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
5	not is a	present	Gaal	the son and Zebul	of Jerubbaal	tree rules
6	serve	infinitive	ye	the men of Hamor		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Attribute
7	serve	should	we	Gaal		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute

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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ׀ גַּ֣עַל בֶּן־עֶ֗בֶד מִֽי־אֲבִימֶ֤לֶךְ וּמִֽי־שְׁכֶם֙ כִּ֣י נַעַבְדֶ֔נּוּ הֲלֹ֥א בֶן־יְרֻבַּ֖עַל וּזְבֻ֣ל פְּקִיד֑וֹ עִבְד֗וּ אֶת־אַנְשֵׁ֤י חֲמוֹר֙ אֲבִ֣י שְׁכֶ֔ם וּמַדּ֖וּעַ נַעַבְדֶ֥נּוּ אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃

Judges 9:28: 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:288 of Mova's parse database.

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