Judges 15:16 · JPS 1917

And Samson said: With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.

Who acts: Samson, I · What happens: say, smite · To what, where: thousand men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 15:16 · 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, I), 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 said	cc
2	Samson	Samson	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	With	with	ADP	_	7 jawbone	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jawbone	det
7	jawbone	jawbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smitten	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ass	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ass	det
10	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jawbone	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heaps	punct
12	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jawbone	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 heaps	case
14	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heaps	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 jawbone	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 jawbone	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jawbone	det
18	jawbone	jawbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smitten	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 ass	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ass	det
21	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jawbone	nmod
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 smitten	aux
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 smitten	nsubj
24	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 men	det
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 men	nummod
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 smitten	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Samson						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smite	present · perfect	I	a thousand men				with the jawbone of a ass and heaps upon heaps; with the jawbone of a ass	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Patient with jawbone=Instrument

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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן בִּלְחִ֣י הַחֲמ֔וֹר חֲמ֖וֹר חֲמֹרָתָ֑יִם בִּלְחִ֣י הַחֲמ֔וֹר הִכֵּ֖יתִי אֶ֥לֶף אִֽישׁ׃

Judges 15:16: 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:463 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.463/