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title: Judges 4:18 (JPS 1917) — And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him: 'Turn in, my lo… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him: 'Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not.' And he turned in unto her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug. Who acts: Jael, Sisera. Judges 4:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 4:18 · JPS 1917

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And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him: 'Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not.' And he turned in unto her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

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**Who acts:** Jael, Sisera · **What happens:** go out, meet, say, turn in, not fear, cover · **To what, where:** Sisera, me, tent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 4:18 · 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 (Jael, Sisera), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JDG:112
# text = And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him: 'Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not.' And he turned in unto her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jael	Jael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	Sisera	Sisera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	rug	rug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | Jael |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Jael *not said here* | Sisera |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sisera=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jael *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Sisera | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **turn in** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | my lord *vocative* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn in** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 6 | **not** **fear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **turn in** | past | Sisera |  |  | the tent |  | unto Jael | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **cover** | past | Jael |  | Sisera |  |  | with a rug | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with rug=Theme |

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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 {#hebrew}

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וַתֵּצֵ֣א יָעֵל֮ לִקְרַ֣את סִֽיסְרָא֒ וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו סוּרָ֧ה אֲדֹנִ֛י סוּרָ֥ה אֵלַ֖י אַל־תִּירָ֑א וַיָּ֤סַר אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙ הָאֹ֔הֱלָה וַתְּכַסֵּ֖הוּ בַּשְּׂמִיכָֽה׃

[Judges 4:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.18/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:112` 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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