Judges 16:26 · JPS 1917

And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand: 'Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house resteth, that I may lean upon them.'

Who acts: Samson, lad, I, house · What happens: say, hold, suffer, feel, rest, lean · To what, where: God, me, pillars · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 16:26 · 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, lad, I, house), 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	Samson	Samson	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 lad	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 held	nsubj
8	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lad	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 held	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hand	det
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 held	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Suffer	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 Suffer	punct
15	Suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Suffer	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 feel	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 feel	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 feel	aux
20	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Suffer	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pillars	det
22	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 feel	obj
23	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 resteth	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 resteth	nsubj
26	resteth	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pillars	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lean	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 lean	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 lean	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 lean	aux
31	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 feel	advcl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lean	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Samson		unto the lad	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hold	past	the lad	God	by the hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by hand=Location
3	suffer	infinitive		me		tree rules
4	feel	may	I	the pillars		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Theme
5	rest	present	the house		whereupon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lean	may	I		upon pillars = pillar	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon they=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

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹן אֶל־הַנַּ֨עַר הַמַּחֲזִ֣יק בְּיָדוֹ֮ הַנִּ֣יחָה אוֹתִי֒ וַהֲמִשֵׁ֙נִי֙ אֶת־הָֽעַמֻּדִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הַבַּ֖יִת נָכ֣וֹן עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וְאֶשָּׁעֵ֖ן עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

Judges 16:26: 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:496 of Mova's parse database.

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