Judges 11:9 · JPS 1917
And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead: 'If ye bring me back home to fight with the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, I will be your head.'
Who acts: Jephthah, ye, LORD, I · What happens: say, bring back, fight, deliver, be · To what, where: me, elders, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 11:9 · 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 (Jephthah, ye, LORD, I), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Jephthah | Jephthah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 elders | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 elders | det |
| 6 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Gilead | case |
| 8 | Gilead | Gilead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 elders | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 head | punct |
| 11 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 bring | mark |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 bring | nsubj |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 head | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fight | mark |
| 18 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bring | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 children | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 children | det |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fight | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Ammon | case |
| 23 | Ammon | Ammon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 children | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 deliver | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 deliver | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 LORD | det |
| 27 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 deliver | nsubj |
| 28 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bring | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 deliver | obj |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 deliver | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 head | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 head | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 head | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 head | cop |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jephthah | unto the elders of Gilead | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring back a condition, not said to happen | present | ye | me | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | ye not said here | with the children of Ammon | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with child=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | deliver | present | the LORD | elders = elder | before me | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 5 | is a | future | I | your head | tree rules |
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 יִפְתָּ֜ח אֶל־זִקְנֵ֣י גִלְעָ֗ד אִם־מְשִׁיבִ֨ים אַתֶּ֤ם אוֹתִי֙ לְהִלָּחֵם֙ בִּבְנֵ֣י עַמּ֔וֹן וְנָתַ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה אוֹתָ֖ם לְפָנָ֑י אָנֹכִ֕י אֶהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם לְרֹֽאשׁ׃
Judges 11:9: 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:345 of Mova's parse database.
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