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Judges 14:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines.

Who acts: father, it, Samson · What happens: not know, be, seek · To what, where: occasion, Philistines · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 14:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, it, Samson), 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

ccnmod:possnsubjccnmod:possconjadvmodmarknsubjcopcasedetccomppunctmarknsubjadvcldetobjcasedetnmodpunctrootButCCONJhisPRONfatherNOUNandCCONJhisPRONmotherNOUNknewVERBnotPARTthatSCONJitPRONwasAUXofADPtheDETLORDPROPN;PUNCTforSCONJhePRONsoughtVERBanDEToccasionNOUNagainstADPtheDETPhilistinesPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_7 knewcc
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 fathernmod:poss
3fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing7 knewnsubj
4andandCCONJ_6 mothercc
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 mothernmod:poss
6mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing3 fatherconj
7knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8notnotPARTPolarity=Neg7 knewadvmod
9thatthatSCONJ_14 LORDmark
10ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 LORDnsubj
11wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 LORDcop
12ofofADP_14 LORDcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 LORDdet
14LORDLORDPROPNNumber=Sing7 knewccomp
15;;PUNCT_18 soughtpunct
16forforSCONJ_18 soughtmark
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 soughtnsubj
18soughtseekVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 knewadvcl
19anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 occasiondet
20occasionoccasionNOUNNumber=Sing18 soughtobj
21againstagainstADP_23 Philistinescase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Philistinesdet
23PhilistinesphilistinePROPNNumber=Plur20 occasionnmod
24..PUNCT_7 knewpunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
assert
voice
narrator
polarity
none
teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not knowpastSamson's father and Samson's mothervn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2ispastitof the LORDtree rules
3seekpastSamsona occasionthe Philistinesvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent occasion=Theme against philistine=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

וְאָבִ֨יו וְאִמּ֜וֹ לֹ֣א יָדְע֗וּ כִּ֤י מֵיְהוָה֙ הִ֔יא כִּי־תֹאֲנָ֥ה הֽוּא־מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ מִפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וּבָעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔יא פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים מֹשְׁלִ֥ים בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ

Judges 14:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

  1. But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines.
  2. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JDG:427 of Mova's parse database.

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