Judges 12:6 · JPS 1917

then said they unto him: 'Say now Shibboleth'; and he said 'Sibboleth'; for he could not frame to pronounce it right; then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

Who acts: men, Ephraim · What happens: say, not frame, pronounce, lay, slay, fall · To what, where: Shibboleth, Sibboleth, Jordan, hold, Ephraim, fords · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 12:6 · 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 (men, Ephraim), 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Say	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Say	punct
8	Say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 Say	advmod
10	Shibboleth	Shibboleth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Say	obj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Say	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Sibboleth	punct
17	Sibboleth	Sibboleth	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Sibboleth	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 frame	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 frame	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 frame	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 frame	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 frame	advmod
24	frame	frame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pronounce	mark
26	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 frame	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pronounce	obj
28	right	right	ADV	_	26 pronounce	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 laid	punct
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 laid	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 laid	nsubj
32	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
33	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 laid	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 laid	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 slew	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 slew	cc
38	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 laid	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 slew	obj
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 fords	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fords	det
42	fords	ford	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 slew	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 Jordan	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Jordan	det
45	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 fords	nmod
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 fell	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fell	cc
48	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	49 fell	expl
49	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 laid	conj
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 time	case
51	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 time	det
52	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fell	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 Ephraim	case
54	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 fell	obl
55	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 thousand	conj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 two	cc
57	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 thousand	conj
58	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 Ephraim	nummod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	men = man			then	unto Ephraim	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	infinitive		Shibboleth		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shibboleth=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	Ephraim	Sibboleth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sibboleth=Topic
4	not frame	could	Ephraim					tree rules
5	pronounce	to-infinitive	Ephraim not said here	Jordan			right property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	lay	past	men = man	hold		then	on Ephraim	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on he=Destination
7	slay	past	men = man not said here	Ephraim	the fords of the Jordan			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	fall	past	men = man not said here		there	time	of Ephraim	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of ephraim=Initial_Location

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

וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ לוֹ֩ אֱמָר־נָ֨א שִׁבֹּ֜לֶת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר סִבֹּ֗לֶת וְלֹ֤א יָכִין֙ לְדַבֵּ֣ר כֵּ֔ן וַיֹּאחֲז֣וּ אוֹת֔וֹ וַיִּשְׁחָט֖וּהוּ אֶל־מַעְבְּר֣וֹת הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ן וַיִּפֹּ֞ל בָּעֵ֤ת הַהִיא֙ מֵֽאֶפְרַ֔יִם אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁנַ֖יִם אָֽלֶף׃

Judges 12:6: 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:386 of Mova's parse database.

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