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title: Judges 4:20 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto her: 'Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall b… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said unto her: 'Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say: Is there any man here? that thou shalt say: No.' Who acts: Sisera, man, thou. Judges 4:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 4:20 · JPS 1917

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And he said unto her: 'Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say: Is there any man here? that thou shalt say: No.'

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**Who acts:** Sisera, man, thou · **What happens:** say, stand, be, come, inquire · **To what, where:** door, tent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 4:20 · 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 (Sisera, man, thou), 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:114
# text = And he said unto her: 'Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say: Is there any man here? that thou shalt say: No.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	expl	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
38	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nsubj	_	_
42	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	csubj	_	_
44	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
45	No.	no	INTJ	UH	_	43	discourse	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sisera |  |  |  |  | unto Jael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  | the door of the tent |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in door=Location |
| 3 | **be** | shall |  | tent |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present · do-support | any man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **inquire** *speech: other* | infinitive | any man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of thee | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of thou=Recipient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | any man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **be** | present | any man |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלֶ֔יהָ עֲמֹ֖ד פֶּ֣תַח הָאֹ֑הֶל וְהָיָה֩ אִם־אִ֨ישׁ יָב֜וֹא וּשְׁאֵלֵ֗ךְ וְאָמַ֛ר הֲיֵֽשׁ־פֹּ֥ה אִ֖ישׁ וְאָמַ֥רְתְּ אָֽיִן׃

[Judges 4:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.20/)

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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:114` 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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