Judges 21:23 · JPS 1917

And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off; and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.

Who acts: children · What happens: do, take, accord, dance, carry off, go · To what, where: wives, children, cities

This is Judges 21:23 · 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), 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 did	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Benjamin	case
5	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	6 did	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 did	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	iobj
12	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 number	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 number	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 according	fixed
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 number	nmod:poss
17	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 them	punct
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wives	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 danced	nsubj
22	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 them	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carried	punct
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 carried	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carried	nsubj
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 them	acl:relcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 carried	compound:prt
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 did	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 returned	cc
33	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 went	conj
34	unto	unto	ADP	_	36 inheritance	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 inheritance	nmod:poss
36	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 returned	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 built	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 built	cc
39	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 went	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cities	det
41	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 built	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dwelt	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 dwelt	cc
44	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 went	conj
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 dwelt	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the children of Benjamin				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the children of Benjamin not said here	wives of children	children = child	accord children's number	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme wife=Destination
3	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	dance	past					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry off	past	children = child				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
6	go	past	children = child				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	return	past	children = child not said here			unto children's inheritance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	build	past	children = child not said here	the cities			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product
9	dwell	past	children = child not said here			in children = child	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location
10	inherit		children = child				nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

וַיַּֽעֲשׂוּ־כֵן֙ בְּנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֔ן וַיִּשְׂא֤וּ נָשִׁים֙ לְמִסְפָּרָ֔ם מִן־הַמְּחֹלְל֖וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר גָּזָ֑לוּ וַיֵּלְכ֗וּ וַיָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙ אֶל־נַ֣חֲלָתָ֔ם וַיִּבְנוּ֙ אֶת־הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ בָּהֶֽם׃

Judges 21:23: 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:651 of Mova's parse database.

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