Judges 20:32 · JPS 1917

And the children of Benjamin said: 'They are smitten down before us, as at the first.' But the children of Israel said: 'Let us flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.'

Who acts: children, us · What happens: say, smite down, let, flee, draw away · To what, where: children, us, city · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 20:32 · 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, us), 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 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Benjamin	case
5	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 smitten	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 smitten	punct
9	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 smitten	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 smitten	aux:pass
11	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 smitten	advmod
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 smitten	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 first	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 first	case
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 first	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 first	det
19	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smitten	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 smitten	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 smitten	punct
22	But	but	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 children	det
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 said	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Israel	case
26	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 children	nmod
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Let	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 Let	punct
30	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 Let	obj
32	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 Let	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 draw	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 draw	cc
35	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 flee	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 draw	obj
37	away	away	ADV	_	35 draw	advmod
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 city	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 city	det
40	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 draw	obl
41	unto	unto	ADP	_	43 highways	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 highways	det
43	highways	highway	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 draw	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the children of Benjamin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smite down	present · passive		children = child		before us	as the first; down property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	the children of Israel					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	infinitive		us				tree rules
5	flee	infinitive	us not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	draw away	infinitive	us not said here	children = child	the city		unto the highways; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from city=Initial_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

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֔ן נִגָּפִ֥ים הֵ֛ם לְפָנֵ֖ינוּ כְּבָרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה וּבְנֵ֧י יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל אָמְר֗וּ נָנ֙וּסָה֙ וּֽנְתַקְּנֻ֔הוּ מִן־הָעִ֖יר אֶל־הַֽמְסִלּֽוֹת׃

Judges 20:32: 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:611 of Mova's parse database.

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