Judges 16:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber.
Who acts: Delilah, Philistines, liers · What happens: take, bound, say, be, abide · To what, where: new ropes, man, inner chamber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 16:12 · 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 (Delilah, Philistines, liers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Delilah | Delilah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ropes | amod |
| 5 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bound | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bound | cc |
| 8 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bound | obj |
| 10 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 8 bound | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 thee | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 thee | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Philistines | det |
| 19 | Philistines | philistine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 thee | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 thee | cop |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 thee | case |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Samson | punct |
| 24 | Samson | Samson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 thee | vocative |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 thee | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 thee | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 abiding | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 liers | det |
| 29 | liers | lier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 abiding | nsubj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 wait | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 wait | case |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 in | punct |
| 33 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 liers | nmod |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 abiding | aux |
| 35 | abiding | abide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 chamber | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 chamber | det |
| 38 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 chamber | amod |
| 39 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 abiding | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Delilah | new ropes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bound | past | Delilah not said here | man | therewith property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Delilah not said here | unto man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the Philistines | upon thee; Samson vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | abide | past · progressive | the liers in wait | the inner chamber | 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
וַתִּקַּ֣ח דְּלִילָה֩ עֲבֹתִ֨ים חֲדָשִׁ֜ים וַתַּאַסְרֵ֣הוּ בָהֶ֗ם וַתֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ פְּלִשְׁתִּ֤ים עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן וְהָאֹרֵ֖ב יֹשֵׁ֣ב בֶּחָ֑דֶר וַֽיְנַתְּקֵ֛ם מֵעַ֥ל זְרֹעֹתָ֖יו כַּחֽוּט׃
Judges 16:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber.
- And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JDG:481 of Mova's parse database.
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