Judges 20:3 · JPS 1917

Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpah. — And the children of Israel said: 'Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?'

Who acts: children · What happens: hear, go up, say, tell, bring, pass · To what, where: Mizpah, us, wickedness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 20:3 · 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), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Benjamin	case
5	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 gone	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gone	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Israel	case
11	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 children	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 heard	ccomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 gone	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Mizpah	case
16	Mizpah	Mizpah	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gone	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 children	det
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 said	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Israel	case
23	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 children	nmod
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Tell	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 Tell	punct
27	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 Tell	iobj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 brought	punct
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 brought	advmod
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 brought	aux:pass
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 wickedness	det
33	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brought	nsubj:pass
34	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 Tell	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 pass	mark
36	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 brought	xcomp
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 Tell	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past	the children of Benjamin			now	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go up	past · passive	the children of Israel		Mizpah		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	past	the children of Israel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
5	bring	past · passive		this wickedness			tree rules
6	pass	to-infinitive					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וַֽיִּשְׁמְעוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֔ן כִּֽי־עָל֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הַמִּצְפָּ֑ה וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל דַּבְּר֕וּ אֵיכָ֥ה נִהְיְתָ֖ה הָרָעָ֥ה הַזֹּֽאת׃

Judges 20:3: 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:582 of Mova's parse database.

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