Judges 20:40 · JPS 1917

But when the beacon began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.

Who acts: beacon, Benjamites, whole · What happens: begin, arise up, look, go up · To what, where: city

This is Judges 20:40 · 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 (beacon, Benjamites, whole), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 began	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beacon	det
4	beacon	beacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 looked	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 arise	mark
7	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 arise	compound:prt
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 city	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arise	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pillar	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pillar	det
15	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arise	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 smoke	case
17	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pillar	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Benjamites	det
20	Benjamites	benjamite	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 looked	nsubj
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 behold	punct
27	behold	behold	INTJ	_	34 went	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 behold	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 whole	det
30	whole	whole	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 city	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 city	det
33	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 whole	nmod
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 looked	conj
35	up	up	ADV	_	34 went	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 smoke	case
37	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 heaven	case
39	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the beacon			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	arise up	to-infinitive	the beacon not said here	the city	in a pillar of smoke	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out city=Location
3	look	past	the Benjamites		behind persons = person	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind they=Theme
4	go up	past	the whole of the city		to heaven; in smoke	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in smoke=Attribute

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

וְהַמַּשְׂאֵ֗ת הֵחֵ֛לָּה לַעֲל֥וֹת מִן־הָעִ֖יר עַמּ֣וּד עָשָׁ֑ן וַיִּ֤פֶן בִּנְיָמִן֙ אַחֲרָ֔יו וְהִנֵּ֛ה עָלָ֥ה כְלִיל־הָעִ֖יר הַשָּׁמָֽיְמָה׃

Judges 20:40: 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:620 of Mova's parse database.

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