Judges 9:53 · JPS 1917
And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.
Who acts: certain woman · What happens: cast, break · To what, where: upper millstone, head, skull
This is Judges 9:53 · 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 (certain woman), 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 | _ | 5 cast | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cast | nsubj |
| 5 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 millstone | det |
| 7 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 millstone | amod |
| 8 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cast | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 10 | Abimelech | Abimelech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Abimelech | case |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cast | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 broke | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 broke | cc |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cast | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 skull | nmod:poss |
| 17 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broke | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past | a certain woman | a upper millstone | Abimelech's head | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent millstone=Theme upon head=Destination | |||
| 2 | break | past | a certain woman not said here | Abimelech's skull | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skull=Patient |
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
וַתַּשְׁלֵ֞ךְ אִשָּׁ֥ה אַחַ֛ת פֶּ֥לַח רֶ֖כֶב עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ וַתָּ֖רִץ אֶת־גֻּלְגָּלְתּֽוֹ׃
Judges 9:53: 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:313 of Mova's parse database.
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