Judges 14:6 · JPS 1917
And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as one would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand; but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
Who acts: spirit, Samson, one · What happens: come, rend, rent, have, not tell, do · To what, where: spirit, kid, nothing, hand, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 14:6 · 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 (spirit, Samson, one), 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 | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 LORD | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 LORD | det |
| 6 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spirit | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rent | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rent | nsubj |
| 14 | rent | rend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rent | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 rent | mark |
| 17 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rent | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 rent | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 rent | aux |
| 20 | rent | rent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 rent | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 kid | det |
| 22 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rent | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 had | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 27 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 had | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 told | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 told | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 told | nsubj |
| 34 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 told | advmod |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 father | nmod:poss |
| 37 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 told | obj |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 mother | cc |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 father | conj |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 44 done | obj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 done | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 done | aux |
| 44 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 told | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the spirit of the LORD | upon Samson; mightily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 2 | rend | past | Samson | spirit | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rent | would · perfect | one | a kid | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Samson | nothing | Samson's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 5 | not tell speech: assert | past | Samson | Samson's father or Samson's mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | Samson | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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
וַתִּצְלַ֨ח עָלָ֜יו ר֣וּחַ יְהוָ֗ה וַֽיְשַׁסְּעֵ֙הוּ֙ כְּשַׁסַּ֣ע הַגְּדִ֔י וּמְא֖וּמָה אֵ֣ין בְּיָד֑וֹ וְלֹ֤א הִגִּיד֙ לְאָבִ֣יו וּלְאִמּ֔וֹ אֵ֖ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָֽׂה׃
Judges 14:6: 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:430 of Mova's parse database.
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