Judges 15:4 · JPS 1917

And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.

Who acts: Samson · What happens: go, catch, take, turn, put · To what, where: hundred foxes, torches, tail, torch, midst

This is Judges 15:4 · 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	Samson	Samson	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 caught	cc
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	nummod
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 foxes	nummod
8	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caught	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 turned	cc
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 tail	case
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 torch	det
23	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 midst	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 midst	det
26	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
27	between	between	ADP	_	30 tails	case
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 tails	det
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 tails	nummod
30	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Samson				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	Samson not said here	hundred foxes			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme
3	take	past	Samson not said here	torches			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Theme
4	turn	past	Samson not said here	tail	tail		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tail=Theme to tail=Trajectory
5	put	past	Samson not said here	a torch	the midst	between every two tails	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent torch=Theme in midst=Destination

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

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן וַיִּלְכֹּ֖ד שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵא֣וֹת שׁוּעָלִ֑ים וַיִּקַּ֣ח לַפִּדִ֗ים וַיֶּ֤פֶן זָנָב֙ אֶל־זָנָ֔ב וַיָּ֨שֶׂם לַפִּ֥יד אֶחָ֛ד בֵּין־שְׁנֵ֥י הַזְּנָב֖וֹת בַּתָּֽוֶךְ׃

Judges 15:4: 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:451 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.451/