Judges 20:39 · JPS 1917

And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said: 'Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.'

Who acts: men, Benjamin, persons · What happens: turn, begin, smite, kill, say, smite down · To what, where: battle, thirty persons, persons, first battle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 20:39 · 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 (men, Benjamin, persons), 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 turned	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turned	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Israel	case
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 men	nmod
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 battle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 battle	det
9	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
12	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 smite	mark
15	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kill	cc
17	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 smite	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 men	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 men	det
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kill	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Israel	case
22	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 men	nmod
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 thirty	advmod
24	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 persons	nummod
25	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kill	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 said	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 began	parataxis
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 smitten	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 smitten	punct
32	Surely	surely	ADV	_	35 smitten	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 smitten	nsubj:pass
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 smitten	aux:pass
35	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 said	ccomp
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 smitten	compound:prt
37	before	before	ADP	_	38 us	case
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 smitten	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 battle	punct
40	as	as	ADP	_	44 battle	mark
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 battle	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 battle	det
43	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	44 battle	amod
44	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 smitten	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 smitten	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the men of Israel		the battle			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in battle=Trajectory
2	begin	past	Benjamin					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	smite	to-infinitive	Benjamin not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	kill	infinitive	Benjamin not said here	thirty persons			of the men of Israel	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent person=Theme of man=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	persons = person					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	smite down	present · passive		persons = person	the first battle	before us	surely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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

וַיַּהֲפֹ֥ךְ אִֽישׁ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה וּבִנְיָמִ֡ן הֵחֵל֩ לְהַכּ֨וֹת חֲלָלִ֤ים בְּאִֽישׁ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ כִּשְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים אִ֔ישׁ כִּ֣י אָמְר֔וּ אַךְ֩ נִגּ֨וֹף נִגָּ֥ף הוּא֙ לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ כַּמִּלְחָמָ֖ה הָרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃

Judges 20:39: 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:619 of Mova's parse database.

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