Judges 20:42 · JPS 1917

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and they that came out of the city destroyed them in the midst of the men of Israel.

Who acts: Benjamites, battle · What happens: turn, follow, come out, destroy · To what, where: backs, city, midst

This is Judges 20:42 · 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 (Benjamites, battle), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 backs	nmod:poss
5	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 men	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Israel	case
10	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod
11	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wilderness	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wilderness	det
16	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 followed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 followed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 battle	det
20	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 followed	nsubj
21	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
22	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 followed	advmod
23	after	after	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 followed	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 destroyed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 destroyed	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 destroyed	nsubj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 they	acl:relcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 city	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 city	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 city	det
33	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
34	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 destroyed	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 midst	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 midst	det
38	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 destroyed	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 men	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 men	det
41	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 midst	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 Israel	case
43	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 men	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Benjamites = benjamite	Benjamites's backs		before the men of Israel	unto the way of the wilderness; therefore property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	follow	past	the battle			after Benjamites = benjamite	hard property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after they=Theme
3	come out	past		the city				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient city=Result
4	destroy	past	Benjamites = benjamite	backs = back	the midst of the men of Israel			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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

וַיִּפְנ֞וּ לִפְנֵ֨י אִ֤ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶל־דֶּ֣רֶךְ הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר וְהַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה הִדְבִּיקָ֑תְהוּ וַאֲשֶׁר֙ מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים מַשְׁחִיתִ֥ים אוֹת֖וֹ בְּתוֹכֽוֹ׃

Judges 20:42: 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:622 of Mova's parse database.

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