Judges 9:38 · JPS 1917

Then said Zebul unto him: 'Where is now thy mouth, that thou saidst: Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.'

Who acts: Zebul, thou, we, this, I · What happens: say, be, serve, not be, despise, go out · To what, where: mouth, Abimelech, Gaal, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 9:38 · 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 (Zebul, thou, we, this), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Zebul	Zebul	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 mouth	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 mouth	punct
8	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	12 mouth	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mouth	cop
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 mouth	advmod
11	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saidst	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 saidst	mark
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 saidst	nsubj
16	saidst	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mouth	acl:relcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Abimelech	punct
18	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	20 Abimelech	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Abimelech	cop
20	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 saidst	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 serve	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 serve	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 serve	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 serve	aux
25	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Abimelech	ccomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 serve	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 people	punct
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 people	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 people	advmod
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 people	nsubj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 people	det
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	ccomp
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 despised	obj
34	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 despised	nsubj
35	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 despised	aux
36	despised	despise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 people	acl:relcl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 people	punct
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
39	out	out	ADV	_	38 go	advmod
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 go	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 pray	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 pray	nsubj
43	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 go	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 fight	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 fight	cc
46	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 go	conj
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 them	case
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 fight	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
50	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Zebul		then	unto Gaal	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		thy mouth	now		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	thou	thy mouth not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouth=Topic
4	is a	present		Abimelech			tree rules
5	serve	should	we	Gaal			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
6	not is a	present	this	the people			tree rules
7	despise	present · perfect	thou	the people			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
8	go out	infinitive			now	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	pray	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
10	fight	infinitive				with people	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent

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

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלָ֜יו זְבֻ֗ל אַיֵּ֨ה אֵפ֥וֹא פִ֙יךָ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֹּאמַ֔ר מִ֥י אֲבִימֶ֖לֶךְ כִּ֣י נַעַבְדֶ֑נּוּ הֲלֹ֨א זֶ֤ה הָעָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר מָאַ֣סְתָּה בּ֔וֹ צֵא־נָ֥א עַתָּ֖ה וְהִלָּ֥חֶם בּֽוֹ׃ס

Judges 9:38: 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:298 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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