Judges 20:27 · JPS 1917
And the children of Israel asked of the LORD — for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Who acts: children, ark, God · What happens: ask, be, covenant
This is Judges 20:27 · 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, ark, God), 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 | _ | 6 asked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Israel | case |
| 5 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 children | nmod |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 LORD | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 LORD | det |
| 9 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 there | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 there | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ark | det |
| 13 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 there | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 covenant | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 covenant | det |
| 16 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ark | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 God | case |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 covenant | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 there | cop |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 asked | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 days | det |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 there | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the children of Israel | of the LORD | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of lord=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the ark of the covenant of God | day | there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | covenant | God | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: of=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
וַיִּשְׁאֲל֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּֽיהוָ֑ה וְשָׁ֗ם אֲרוֹן֙ בְּרִ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּיָּמִ֖ים הָהֵֽם׃
Judges 20:27: 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:606 of Mova's parse database.
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