Judges 11:25 · JPS 1917
And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
Who acts: thou, LORD · What happens: be, strive, fight
This is Judges 11:25 · 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 (thou, LORD), 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 | _ | 7 better | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 art | advmod |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 better | cop |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 better | nsubj |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 thing | det |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 better | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 Balak | case |
| 9 | Balak | Balak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 better | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 son | det |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Balak | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Zippor | case |
| 13 | Zippor | Zippor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 king | punct |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Balak | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Moab | case |
| 17 | Moab | Moab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 king | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 better | punct |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 strive | aux |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 strive | nsubj |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 strive | advmod |
| 22 | strive | strive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 better | parataxis |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 Israel | case |
| 24 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 strive | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fight | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 fight | cc |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fight | aux |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fight | nsubj |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 fight | advmod |
| 30 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 strive | conj |
| 31 | against | against | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fight | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 strive | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | thou | than Balak; any thing obl:unmarked; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strive | past · do-support | LORD | ever | against Israel | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fight | past · do-support | LORD | ever | against people | 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
וְעַתָּ֗ה הֲט֥וֹב טוֹב֙ אַתָּ֔ה מִבָּלָ֥ק בֶּן־צִפּ֖וֹר מֶ֣לֶךְ מוֹאָ֑ב הֲר֥וֹב רָב֙ עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־נִלְחֹ֥ם נִלְחַ֖ם בָּֽם׃
Judges 11:25: 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:363 of Mova's parse database.
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