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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 knew | cc |
| 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 knew | 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 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 knew | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 LORD | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 LORD | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 LORD | cop |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 LORD | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 LORD | det |
| 14 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sought | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 sought | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sought | nsubj |
| 18 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | advcl |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 occasion | det |
| 20 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | obj |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 Philistines | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Philistines | det |
| 23 | Philistines | philistine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 occasion | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | Samson's father and Samson's mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | it | of the LORD | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | Samson | a occasion | the Philistines | vn 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:
- But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines.
- 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.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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