Judges 16:19 · JPS 1917
And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and had the seven locks of his head shaven off; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Who acts: Delilah, soul, seven locks, strength · What happens: make, sleep, call, have, shaven off, begin · To what, where: soul, seven locks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 16:19 · 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, soul, seven locks, strength), 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 made | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 knees | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knees | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sleep | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 locks | det |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 locks | nummod |
| 21 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 locks | nmod |
| 25 | shaven | shaven | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 had | xcomp |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 shaven | compound:prt |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 began | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 began | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 began | nsubj |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 afflict | mark |
| 32 | afflict | afflict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 began | xcomp |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 afflict | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 strength | nmod:poss |
| 37 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | nsubj |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 began | conj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 went | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | 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 | make | past | Delilah | soul | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | infinitive | soul not said here | upon Delilah's knees | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | past | Delilah | for a man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for man=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Delilah not said here | the seven locks of soul's head | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shaven off | participle | the seven locks of soul's head not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | begin | past | Delilah | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | afflict | to-infinitive | Delilah not said here | soul | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | go | past | soul's strength | from soul | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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
וַתְּיַשְּׁנֵ֙הוּ֙ עַל־בִּרְכֶּ֔יהָ וַתִּקְרָ֣א לָאִ֔ישׁ וַתְּגַלַּ֕ח אֶת־שֶׁ֖בַע מַחְלְפ֣וֹת רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַתָּ֙חֶל֙ לְעַנּוֹת֔וֹ וַיָּ֥סַר כֹּח֖וֹ מֵעָלָֽיו׃
Judges 16:19: 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:489 of Mova's parse database.
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