Judges 18:5 · JPS 1917
And they said unto him: 'Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we are going shall be prosperous.'
Who acts: children, we, way · What happens: say, ask, pray, know, go, be · To what, where: counsel, thee, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Judges 18:5 · 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 (children, we, way), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ask | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ask | punct |
| 8 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Ask | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pray | nsubj |
| 12 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Ask | parataxis |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 pray | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 God | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ask | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Ask | advcl |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 31 prosperous | mark |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 prosperous | nsubj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 going | obj |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 going | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 going | aux |
| 28 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 way | acl:relcl |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 prosperous | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 prosperous | cop |
| 31 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 know | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | children = child | unto Micah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | counsel | of God | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent counsel=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | pray | present | we | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | may | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | go | present · progressive | we | our way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | shall | our way | prosperous 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
וַיֹּ֥אמְרוּ ל֖וֹ שְׁאַל־נָ֣א בֵאלֹהִ֑ים וְנֵ֣דְעָ֔ה הֲתַצְלִ֣יחַ דַּרְכֵּ֔נוּ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲנַ֖חְנוּ הֹלְכִ֥ים עָלֶֽיהָ׃
Judges 18:5: 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:521 of Mova's parse database.
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