Judges 9:45 · JPS 1917

And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein; and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

Who acts: Abimelech, people · What happens: fight, take, slay, be, beat down, sow · To what, where: city, people

This is Judges 9:45 · 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 (Abimelech, people), 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 fought	cc
2	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fought	nsubj
3	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fought	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det:predet
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fought	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fought	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 city	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 slew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 slew	cc
18	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 slew	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 therein	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 therein	cop
23	therein	therein	ADV	_	20 people	acl:relcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 beat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 beat	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 beat	nsubj
27	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fought	conj
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 beat	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 city	det
30	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beat	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sowed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sowed	cc
33	sowed	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 beat	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sowed	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 salt	case
36	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sowed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fought	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	fight	past	Abimelech		day	against the city	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	Abimelech	the city			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
3	slay	past	Abimelech not said here	the people			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
4	is	past	the people			therein property	tree rules
5	beat down	past	Abimelech	the city			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location city=Theme
6	sow	past	Abimelech not said here	city		with salt	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with salt=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

וַאֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ נִלְחָ֣ם בָּעִ֗יר כֹּ֚ל הַיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא וַיִּלְכֹּד֙ אֶת־הָעִ֔יר וְאֶת־הָעָ֥ם אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֖הּ הָרָ֑ג וַיִּתֹּץ֙ אֶת־הָעִ֔יר וַיִּזְרָעֶ֖הָ מֶֽלַח׃פ

Judges 9:45: 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:305 of Mova's parse database.

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