Judges 11:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying: Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom hearkened not.
Who acts: Israel, I, me, king · What happens: send, say, let, pray, pass, not hearken · To what, where: messengers, thee, land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 11:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Israel, I, me, king), 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 | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind 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 | _ | 9 Edom | case |
| 9 | Edom | Edom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sent | advcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
| 13 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pass | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pray | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 pray | nsubj |
| 17 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Let | parataxis |
| 18 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 pray | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pass | punct |
| 20 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Let | xcomp |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 land | nmod:poss |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pass | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 hearkened | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 hearkened | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hearkened | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Edom | case |
| 29 | Edom | Edom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 king | nmod |
| 30 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 hearkened | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Israel | messengers | then | unto the king of Edom | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Israel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pray | present | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pass | infinitive | me | thy land | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through land=Location | ||||
| 6 | not hearken | past | the king of Edom | 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
וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל מַלְאָכִ֣ים ׀ אֶל־מֶלֶךְ֩ אֱד֨וֹם ׀ לֵאמֹ֜ר אֶעְבְּרָה־נָּ֣א בְאַרְצֶ֗ךָ וְלֹ֤א שָׁמַע֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אֱד֔וֹם וְגַ֨ם אֶל־מֶ֧לֶךְ מוֹאָ֛ב שָׁלַ֖ח וְלֹ֣א אָבָ֑ה וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּקָדֵֽשׁ׃
Judges 11:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying: Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom hearkened not.
- And in like manner he sent unto the king of Moab; but he would not; and Israel abode in Kadesh.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JDG:353 of Mova's parse database.
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