Judges 14:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?
Who acts: men, sun · What happens: say, go down, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 14:18 · 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 (men, sun), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | nmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 sweeter | punct |
| 20 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 sweeter | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sweeter | cop |
| 22 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 said | parataxis |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 honey | case |
| 24 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sweeter | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 sweeter | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stronger | cc |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 stronger | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 stronger | cop |
| 29 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 sweeter | conj |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 lion | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 lion | det |
| 32 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stronger | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the men of the city | day | unto Samson | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go down | past | the sun | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | present | than honey; sweet property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | than a lion; strong property | tree rules |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ לוֹ֩ אַנְשֵׁ֨י הָעִ֜יר בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י בְּטֶ֙רֶם֙ יָבֹ֣א הַחַ֔רְסָה מַה־מָּת֣וֹק מִדְּבַ֔שׁ וּמֶ֥ה עַ֖ז מֵאֲרִ֑י וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֔ם לוּלֵא֙ חֲרַשְׁתֶּ֣ם בְּעֶגְלָתִ֔י לֹ֥א מְצָאתֶ֖ם חִידָתִֽי׃
Judges 14:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?
- And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JDG:443 of Mova's parse database.
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