Judges 16:21 · JPS 1917
And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.
Who acts: Philistines, soul · What happens: lay, put out, bring down, bound, grind · To what, where: hold, eyes, soul, Gaza, prison house
This is Judges 16:21 · 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 (Philistines, soul), 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 laid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Philistines | det |
| 3 | Philistines | Philistine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brought | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Gaza | case |
| 21 | Gaza | Gaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bound | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bound | cc |
| 24 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bound | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fetters | case |
| 27 | fetters | fetter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bound | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 brass | case |
| 29 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fetters | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 grind | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 grind | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 grind | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 grind | aux |
| 34 | grind | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 laid | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 house | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 house | det |
| 37 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 house | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 prison | punct |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grind | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | the Philistines | hold | on soul | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on he=Destination | |||
| 2 | put out | past | the Philistines not said here | soul's eyes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal | ||||
| 3 | bring down | past | Philistines = philistine | soul | Gaza | down property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gaza=Destination | ||
| 4 | bound | past | Philistines = philistine not said here | soul | with fetters of brass | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | |||
| 5 | grind | past · do-support | soul | the prison house | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
וַיֹּאחֲז֣וּהוּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַֽיְנַקְּר֖וּ אֶת־עֵינָ֑יו וַיּוֹרִ֨ידוּ אוֹת֜וֹ עַזָּ֗תָה וַיַּאַסְר֙וּהוּ֙ בַּֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֔יִם וַיְהִ֥י טוֹחֵ֖ן בְּבֵ֥ית הָאֲסוּרִֽים׃
Judges 16:21: 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:491 of Mova's parse database.
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