Judges 11:12 · JPS 1917
And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying: 'What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land?'
Who acts: Jephthah, thou · What happens: send, say, do, come, fight · To what, where: messengers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 11:12 · 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, thou), 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 sent | cc |
| 2 | Jephthah | Jephthah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 king | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Ammon | case |
| 12 | Ammon | Ammon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 children | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sent | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 18 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 come | nsubj |
| 27 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 do | advcl |
| 29 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 come | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 fight | mark |
| 32 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 come | advcl |
| 33 | against | against | ADP | _ | 35 land | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 land | nmod:poss |
| 35 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fight | obl |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Jephthah | messengers | unto the king of the children of Ammon | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Jephthah not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | present | thou | with me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come | present · passive | thou | unto me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fight | to-infinitive | thou not said here | against my land | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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
וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח יִפְתָּח֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל־מֶ֥לֶךְ בְּנֵֽי־עַמּ֖וֹן לֵאמֹ֑ר מַה־לִּ֣י וָלָ֔ךְ כִּֽי־בָ֥אתָ אֵלַ֖י לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם בְּאַרְצִֽי׃
Judges 11:12: 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:348 of Mova's parse database.
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