Judges 21:16 · JPS 1917

Then the elders of the congregation said: 'How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?'

Who acts: elders, we, wives · What happens: say, do, remain, see, destroy · To what, where: women, Benjamin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Judges 21:16 · 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 (elders, we, wives), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elders	det
3	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 congregation	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 congregation	det
6	congregation	congregation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 elders	nmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 do	advmod
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 wives	case
15	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wives	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 remain	nsubj
19	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wives	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seeing	punct
21	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 do	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 women	det
23	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 destroyed	nsubj:pass
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 destroyed	aux:pass
25	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 seeing	ccomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	28 Benjamin	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Benjamin	case
28	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 destroyed	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the elders of the congregation			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	shall	we				for wives for elders	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remain	present	wives for elders					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	gerund	we not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	destroy	present · passive		the women	Benjamin			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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

וַיֹּֽאמְר֨וּ זִקְנֵ֣י הָעֵדָ֔ה מַה־נַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לַנּוֹתָרִ֖ים לְנָשִׁ֑ים כִּֽי־נִשְׁמְדָ֥ה מִבִּנְיָמִ֖ן אִשָּֽׁה׃

Judges 21:16: 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:644 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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