Judges 16:6 · JPS 1917

And Delilah said to Samson: 'Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.'

Who acts: Delilah, I, great strength, thou · What happens: say, tell, pray, lie, be, afflict · To what, where: Samson, me, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 16:6 · 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 (Delilah, I, great strength, thou), 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	Delilah	Delilah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Samson	case
5	Samson	Samson	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Tell	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Tell	punct
8	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pray	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 pray	nsubj
12	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Tell	parataxis
13	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 pray	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lieth	punct
15	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	19 lieth	advmod
16	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 strength	nmod:poss
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 strength	amod
18	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lieth	nsubj
19	lieth	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Tell	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bound	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bound	cc
22	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	PronType=Int	26 bound	advmod
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 bound	nsubj
24	mightest	might	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	26 bound	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 bound	cop
26	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lieth	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 afflict	mark
28	afflict	afflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 bound	xcomp
29	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 afflict	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Tell	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Delilah		Samson		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to samson=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	pray	present	I	thee			tree rules
4	lie	present	thy great strength			wherein property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	might	thou			bound, wherewith property	tree rules
6	afflict	to-infinitive	thou not said here	thee			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer

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

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר דְּלִילָה֙ אֶל־שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן הַגִּֽידָה־נָּ֣א לִ֔י בַּמֶּ֖ה כֹּחֲךָ֣ גָד֑וֹל וּבַמֶּ֥ה תֵאָסֵ֖ר לְעַנּוֹתֶֽךָ׃

Judges 16:6: 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:473 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.

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