Judges 13:23 · JPS 1917
But his wife said unto him: 'If the LORD were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would He have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.'
Who acts: wife, LORD · What happens: say, be, kill, not receive, show, tell · To what, where: us, burnt offering, things, such things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 13:23 · 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 (wife, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 received | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 received | punct |
| 9 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 pleased | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 LORD | det |
| 11 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pleased | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pleased | cop |
| 13 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 received | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pleased | xcomp |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pleased | punct |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 received | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 received | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 received | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 received | aux |
| 22 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 offering | det |
| 24 | burnt | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 offering | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 burnt | punct |
| 26 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 received | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 offering | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 offering | det |
| 29 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 offering | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 meal | punct |
| 31 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 offering | conj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 hand | case |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 hand | nmod:poss |
| 34 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 offering | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 shown | punct |
| 36 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 40 shown | cc |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 shown | aux |
| 38 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 shown | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 shown | aux |
| 40 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 received | conj |
| 41 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 shown | iobj |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 things | det:predet |
| 43 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 44 things | det |
| 44 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 shown | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 told | punct |
| 46 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 52 told | cc |
| 47 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 told | aux |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 time | case |
| 49 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 time | det |
| 50 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 told | obl |
| 51 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 told | aux |
| 52 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 shown | conj |
| 53 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 things | amod |
| 54 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 told | obj |
| 55 | as | as | ADP | _ | 56 these | case |
| 56 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 52 told | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 58 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | LORD's wife | unto LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the LORD | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | the LORD not said here | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not receive | would · perfect | LORD | a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | ||||
| 5 | show | would · perfect | LORD | all things | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient thing=Topic | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | would · perfect | LORD not said here | such things | time | as these | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |
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
וַתֹּ֧אמֶר ל֣וֹ אִשְׁתּ֗וֹ לוּ֩ חָפֵ֨ץ יְהוָ֤ה לַהֲמִיתֵ֙נוּ֙ לֹֽא־לָקַ֤ח מִיָּדֵ֙נוּ֙ עֹלָ֣ה וּמִנְחָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א הֶרְאָ֖נוּ אֶת־כָּל־אֵ֑לֶּה וְכָעֵ֕ת לֹ֥א הִשְׁמִיעָ֖נוּ כָּזֹֽאת׃
Judges 13:23: 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:421 of Mova's parse database.
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