Judges 13:2 · JPS 1917

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bore not.

Who acts: certain man, name, wife, Manoah · What happens: be, not bear, name · To what, where: Manoah

This is Judges 13:2 · 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 (certain man, name, wife, Manoah), 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 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Zorah	case
8	Zorah	Zorah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 family	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 family	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 family	det
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Danites	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Danites	det
15	Danites	Danite	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 family	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Manoah	punct
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 name	nmod:poss
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Manoah	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Manoah	cop
20	Manoah	Manoah	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Danites	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 barren	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 barren	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 barren	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 barren	cop
26	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 was	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bore	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bore	cc
29	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 barren	conj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 bore	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Manoah's name	Manoah			tree rules
3	is	past	man's wife			barren property	tree rules
4	not bear	past	man's wife not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	name		Manoah				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

וַיְהִי֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶחָ֧ד מִצָּרְעָ֛ה מִמִּשְׁפַּ֥חַת הַדָּנִ֖י וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מָנ֑וֹחַ וְאִשְׁתּ֥וֹ עֲקָרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א יָלָֽדָה׃

Judges 13:2: 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:399 of Mova's parse database.

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