--- title: Judges 11:6 — And they said unto Jephthah: 'Come and be our chief, that we may fig… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And they said unto Jephthah: 'Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.' Who acts: children, we. Judges 11:6 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Judges](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/) / [chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/11/) / 11:6 # Judges 11:6 שֹׁפְטִים **Who acts:** children, we · **What happens:** say, come, be, fight · **To what, where:** chief · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Judges 11:6 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — children, we — and what happens in the verse to chief, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 21 chapters of Judges on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לְיִפְתָּ֔ח לְכָ֕ה וְהָיִ֥יתָה לָּ֖נוּ לְקָצִ֑ין וְנִֽלָּחֲמָ֖ה בִּבְנֵ֥י עַמּֽוֹן׃ [And they said unto Jephthah: 'Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.342/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:JDG:325 # text = וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לְיִפְתָּ֔ח לְכָ֕ה וְהָיִ֥יתָה לָּ֖נוּ לְקָצִ֑ין וְנִֽלָּחֲמָ֖ה בִּבְנֵ֥י עַמּֽוֹן׃ # verse = JDG.11.6 1-2 וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_11:6!1|MId=o070110060011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּאמְר֣וּ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.said|Ref=JDG_11:6!1|MId=o070110060012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:070110050091;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 לְיִפְתָּ֔ח _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JDG_11:6!2|MId=o070110060021|Strong=3807a 4 יִפְתָּ֔ח יִפְתָּח PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Jephthah|Ref=JDG_11:6!2|MId=o070110060022|Strong=3316 5-6 לְכָ֕ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לְכ הלך VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 ccomp _ Gloss=come|Ref=JDG_11:6!3|MId=o070110060031|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:070110060022;|Type=imperative 6 ָ֕ה ה X _ _ 5 nmod _ Gloss=|Ref=JDG_11:6!3|MId=o070110060032|Strong=1886j|Type=paragogic_he 7-8 וְהָיִ֥יתָה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_11:6!4|MId=o070110060041|Strong=2050b 8 הָיִ֥יתָה הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 12 cop _ Gloss=you.will.become|Ref=JDG_11:6!4|MId=o070110060042|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:070110060022;|Type=weqatal 9-10 לָּ֖נוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 לּ לְ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=JDG_11:6!5|MId=o070110060051|Strong=3807a 10 ָ֖נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ Gloss=us|Ref=JDG_11:6!5|MId=o070110060052|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 11-12 לְקָצִ֑ין _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=(into).a|Ref=JDG_11:6!6|MId=o070110060061|Strong=3807a 12 קָצִ֑ין קָצִין NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 conj _ Gloss=commander|Ref=JDG_11:6!6|MId=o070110060062|Strong=7101 13-14 וְנִֽלָּחֲמָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=so|Ref=JDG_11:6!7|MId=o070110060071|Strong=2050b 14 נִֽלָּחֲמָ֖ה לָחַם VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 5 conj _ Gloss=that.we.may.fight|Ref=JDG_11:6!7|MId=o070110060072|Strong=3898|Frame=A0:070110050091;070110050101;|Type=cohortative 15-16 בִּבְנֵ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=against|Ref=JDG_11:6!8|MId=o070110060081|Strong=0871a 16 בְנֵ֥י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 14 obl _ Gloss=the.people|Ref=JDG_11:6!8|MId=o070110060082|Strong=1121 17 עַמּֽוֹן עַמּוֹן PROPN _ _ 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Ammon|Ref=JDG_11:6!9|MId=o070110060091|Strong=5983|SpaceAfter=No 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=JDG_11:6!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמְרוּ *they said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | לְכ *come* | imperative · qal | יִפְתָּח *Jephthah* | | | | | הָיִיתָה *you will become* | weqatal · qal | יִפְתָּח *Jephthah* | | | | | נִֽלָּחֲמָה *that we may fight* | cohortative · niphal | | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos} וַאֲמַרוּ לְיִפְתַּח אִיתָא וּתְהֵי לָנָא לְרַבָּא וּנְגִיחַ קְרָבָא בִּבְנֵי עַמוֹן: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And they said unto Jephthah: 'Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.342/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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