Judges 16:2 · JPS 1917

And it was told the Gazites, saying: 'Samson is come hither.' And they compassed him in, and lay in wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying: 'Let be till morning light, then we will kill him.'

Who acts: Samson, Gazites, we · What happens: tell, say, come, compass in, lie, be · To what, where: harlot, Gazites, Gaza, wait · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 16:2 · 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, Gazites, we), 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	_	4 told	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Gazites	det
6	Gazites	Gazite	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 told	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
11	Samson	Samson	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 saying	ccomp
14	hither	hither	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 compassed	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 compassed	nsubj
19	compassed	compass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 compassed	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	19 compassed	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 compassed	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 wait	case
26	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	obl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl:unmarked
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 gate	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gate	det
33	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 city	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 city	det
36	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gate	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 quiet	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 quiet	cc
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 quiet	cop
40	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	conj
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 night	det:predet
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 night	det
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 quiet	obl:unmarked
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 saying	punct
45	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 quiet	advcl
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 Let	punct
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	48 Let	punct
48	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 saying	ccomp
49	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 Let	xcomp
50	till	till	ADP	_	52 light	case
51	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 light	compound
52	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 be	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 kill	punct
54	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	57 kill	advmod
55	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 kill	nsubj
56	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 kill	aux
57	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 Let	parataxis
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 kill	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
60	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		harlot	the Gazites				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient gazite=Topic
2	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present · passive	Samson					hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	compass in	past	Gazites = gazite	Gaza					tree rules
5	lie	past	Gazites = gazite not said here			wait	night	for Gaza; in the gate of the city	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location
6	is	past					night	quiet property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	let	infinitive							tree rules
9	be	infinitive					till morning light		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	kill	future	we	Gaza			then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

לַֽעַזָּתִ֣ים ׀ לֵאמֹ֗ר בָּ֤א שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙ הֵ֔נָּה וַיָּסֹ֛בּוּ וַיֶּאֶרְבוּ־ל֥וֹ כָל־הַלַּ֖יְלָה בְּשַׁ֣עַר הָעִ֑יר וַיִּתְחָרְשׁ֤וּ כָל־הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר עַד־א֥וֹר הַבֹּ֖קֶר וַהֲרְגְנֻֽהוּ׃

Judges 16:2: 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:469 of Mova's parse database.

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