Judges 14:3 · JPS 1917
Then his father and his mother said unto him: 'Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?' And Samson said unto his father: 'Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.'
Who acts: father, thou, Samson, woman · What happens: say, not be, go, take, get, please · To what, where: woman, wife, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 14:3 · 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 (father, thou, Samson, woman), 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 | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 mother | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 father | conj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Is | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Is | punct |
| 12 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 woman | cop |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 woman | expl |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 woman | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 daughters | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 daughters | det |
| 19 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 woman | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 brethren | case |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 daughters | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 people | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 people | cc |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 people | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 people | det:predet |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 people | nmod:poss |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 daughters | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 goest | punct |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 goest | mark |
| 31 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 goest | nsubj |
| 32 | goest | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 woman | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 take | mark |
| 34 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 goest | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 wife | det |
| 36 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Philistines | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Philistines | det |
| 39 | uncircumcised | uncircumcised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Philistines | amod |
| 40 | Philistines | philistine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 36 wife | nmod |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 32 goest | punct |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 goest | punct |
| 43 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 said | cc |
| 44 | Samson | Samson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 said | nsubj |
| 45 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 46 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 48 father | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 father | nmod:poss |
| 48 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 said | obl |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 51 Get | punct |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 Get | punct |
| 51 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 45 said | ccomp |
| 52 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 Get | obj |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 me | case |
| 54 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 Get | obl |
| 55 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 pleaseth | punct |
| 56 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 58 pleaseth | mark |
| 57 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 pleaseth | nsubj |
| 58 | pleaseth | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 Get | advcl |
| 59 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 pleaseth | obj |
| 60 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 58 pleaseth | advmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 62 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=request, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Samson's father and Samson's mother | then | unto Samson | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not is a | present | a woman | there | among the daughters of thy brethren or my people | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | present | thou | a woman not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | thou not said here | a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Samson | unto Samson's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | get | infinitive | wife | for me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | please | present | woman | me | well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר ל֜וֹ אָבִ֣יו וְאִמּ֗וֹ הַאֵין֩ בִּבְנ֨וֹת אַחֶ֤יךָ וּבְכָל־עַמִּי֙ אִשָּׁ֔ה כִּֽי־אַתָּ֤ה הוֹלֵךְ֙ לָקַ֣חַת אִשָּׁ֔ה מִפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים הָעֲרֵלִ֑ים וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹן אֶל־אָבִיו֙ אוֹתָ֣הּ קַֽח־לִ֔י כִּֽי־הִ֖יא יָשְׁרָ֥ה בְעֵינָֽי׃
Judges 14:3: 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:426 of Mova's parse database.
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