--- title: Judges 8:14 — And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he wrote down for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, seventy and seven men. Who acts: Gideon. Judges 8:14 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.8.14/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/8/) / 8:14 # Judges 8:14 שֹׁפְטִים **Who acts:** Gideon · **What happens:** catch, inquire, write down · **To what, where:** young man, princes This is Judges 8:14 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 — Gideon — and what happens in the verse to young man, princes, 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. וַיִּלְכָּד־נַ֛עַר מֵאַנְשֵׁ֥י סֻכּ֖וֹת וַיִּשְׁאָלֵ֑הוּ וַיִּכְתֹּ֨ב אֵלָ֜יו אֶת־שָׂרֵ֤י סֻכּוֹת֙ וְאֶת־זְקֵנֶ֔יהָ שִׁבְעִ֥ים וְשִׁבְעָ֖ה אִֽישׁ׃ [And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he wrote down for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, seventy and seven men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.238/) ## 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:223 # text = וַיִּלְכָּד־נַ֛עַר מֵאַנְשֵׁ֥י סֻכּ֖וֹת וַיִּשְׁאָלֵ֑הוּ וַיִּכְתֹּ֨ב אֵלָ֜יו אֶת־שָׂרֵ֤י סֻכּוֹת֙ וְאֶת־זְקֵנֶ֔יהָ שִׁבְעִ֥ים וְשִׁבְעָ֖ה אִֽישׁ׃ # verse = JDG.8.14 1-2 וַיִּלְכָּד־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_8:14!1|MId=o070080140011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּלְכָּד־ לָכַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.captured|Ref=JDG_8:14!1|MId=o070080140012|Strong=3920|Frame=A0:070080130021;A1:070080140021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 נַ֛עַר נַעַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=a.young.man|Ref=JDG_8:14!2|MId=o070080140021|Strong=5288 4-5 מֵאַנְשֵׁ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=one|Ref=JDG_8:14!3|MId=o070080140031|Strong=4480 5 אַנְשֵׁ֥י אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obl _ Gloss=of.the.men|Ref=JDG_8:14!3|MId=o070080140032|Strong=0376 6 סֻכּ֖וֹת סֻכּוֹת PROPN _ _ 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Succoth|Ref=JDG_8:14!4|MId=o070080140041|Strong=5523 7-9 וַיִּשְׁאָלֵ֑הוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_8:14!5|MId=o070080140051|Strong=2050b 8 יִּשְׁאָל שָׁאַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he|Ref=JDG_8:14!5|MId=o070080140052|Strong=7592|Frame=A0:070080130021;A1:070080140053;|Type=wayyiqtol 9 ֵ֑הוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ Gloss=enquired.of.him|Ref=JDG_8:14!5|MId=o070080140053|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal 10-11 וַיִּכְתֹּ֨ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_8:14!6|MId=o070080140061|Strong=2050b 11 יִּכְתֹּ֨ב כָּתַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.wrote.down|Ref=JDG_8:14!6|MId=o070080140062|Strong=3789|Frame=A0:070080140021;A1:070080140091;070080140121;|Type=wayyiqtol 12-13 אֵלָ֜יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 אֵלָ֜י אֶל ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JDG_8:14!7|MId=o070080140071|Strong=0413 13 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=JDG_8:14!7|MId=o070080140072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 14 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JDG_8:14!8|MId=o070080140081|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 15 שָׂרֵ֤י שַׂר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 obj _ Gloss=the.officials|Ref=JDG_8:14!9|MId=o070080140091|Strong=8269 16 סֻכּוֹת֙ סֻכּוֹת PROPN _ _ 15 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Succoth|Ref=JDG_8:14!10|MId=o070080140101|Strong=5523 17-18 וְאֶת־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_8:14!11|MId=o070080140111|Strong=2050b 18 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JDG_8:14!11|MId=o070080140112|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 19-20 זְקֵנֶ֔יהָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 זְקֵנֶ֔י זָקֵן ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 15 conj _ Gloss=its|Ref=JDG_8:14!12|MId=o070080140121|Strong=2205|Type=adjective 20 הָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Gloss=elders|Ref=JDG_8:14!12|MId=o070080140122|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 21 שִׁבְעִ֥ים שֶׁבַע NUM _ Number=Plur 24 nummod _ Gloss=seventy|Ref=JDG_8:14!13|MId=o070080140131|Strong=7657|Type=cardinal_number 22-23 וְשִׁבְעָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 23 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_8:14!14|MId=o070080140141|Strong=2050b 23 שִׁבְעָ֖ה שֶׁבַע NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 21 conj _ Gloss=seven|Ref=JDG_8:14!14|MId=o070080140142|Strong=7651|Type=cardinal_number 24 אִֽישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 appos _ Gloss=man|Ref=JDG_8:14!15|MId=o070080140151|Strong=0376|SpaceAfter=No 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=JDG_8:14!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּלְכָּד־ *he captured* | wayyiqtol · qal | | נַעַר *a young man* | | | | יִּשְׁאָל *he* | wayyiqtol · qal | | ֵהוּ *enquired of him* | | | | יִּכְתֹּב *he wrote down* | wayyiqtol · qal | נַעַר *a young man* | שָׂרֵי *the officials* + זְקֵנֶי *its* | | | 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} וַאֲחַד עוּלֵימָא מֵאֱנָשֵׁי סֻכּוֹת וְשַׁאֲלֵיהּ וּכְתַב לֵיהּ יַת רַבְרְבֵי סֻכּוֹת וְיַת סָבָהָא שַׁבְעִין וְשִׁבְעָה גוּבְרִין: 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 he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he wrote down for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, seventy and seven men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.238/) **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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