Judges 16:30 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And Samson said: 'Let me die with the Philistines.' And he bent with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein.
Who acts: Samson, me, house, people · What happens: say, let, die, bend, fall, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 16:30 · 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 (Samson, me, house, people), 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 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 6 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Let | obj |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Let | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Philistines | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Philistines | det |
| 11 | Philistines | Philistine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 die | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bent | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bent | nsubj |
| 16 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 might | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 might | det:predet |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 might | nmod:poss |
| 20 | might | might | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bent | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 fell | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fell | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 lords | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lords | det |
| 28 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fell | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 people | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 people | cc |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 people | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 people | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 people | det |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lords | conj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 therein | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 therein | cop |
| 37 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 34 people | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Samson | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | die | infinitive | me not said here | with the Philistines | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | bend | past | house | with house's might | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | the house | upon the lords and all people | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon lord=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | past | all people | therein property | 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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שִׁמְשׁ֗וֹן תָּמ֣וֹת נַפְשִׁי֮ עִם־פְּלִשְׁתִּים֒ וַיֵּ֣ט בְּכֹ֔חַ וַיִּפֹּ֤ל הַבַּ֙יִת֙ עַל־הַסְּרָנִ֔ים וְעַל־כָּל־הָעָ֖ם אֲשֶׁר־בּ֑וֹ וַיִּהְי֤וּ הַמֵּתִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֵמִ֣ית בְּמוֹת֔וֹ רַבִּ֕ים מֵאֲשֶׁ֥ר הֵמִ֖ית בְּחַיָּֽיו׃
Judges 16:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Samson said: 'Let me die with the Philistines.' And he bent with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein.
- So the dead that he slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JDG:500 of Mova's parse database.
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