--- title: Judges 4:21 (JPS 1917) — Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her han… · tree and pragmatics description: Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died. Who acts: wife, pin, Sisera. 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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 (wife, pin, 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:115 # text = Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 Jael Jael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Heber Heber PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 5 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 tent tent NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 22 softly softly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 unto unto ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 smote smote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 temples temple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 pierced pierce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 37 through through ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 42 for for SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 49 ; ; PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 50 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 51 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 swooned swoon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Jael's wife | a tent pin | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | Jael's wife *not said here* | a hammer | | Jael's hand | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hammer=Value in hand=Location | | 3 | **go** | past | Jael's wife *not said here* | | | | | unto Sisera; softly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **smote** | past | Jael's wife *not said here* | the pin | | Sisera's temples | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pierce** | past | pin | | | | | into the ground; through *property* | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into ground=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | Sisera | | | a deep sleep | | | tree rules | | 7 | **swoon** | past | Sisera | | | | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **die** | past | Sisera *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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} וַתִּקַּ֣ח יָעֵ֣ל אֵֽשֶׁת־חֶ֠בֶר אֶת־יְתַ֨ד הָאֹ֜הֶל וַתָּ֧שֶׂם אֶת־הַמַּקֶּ֣בֶת בְּיָדָ֗הּ וַתָּב֤וֹא אֵלָיו֙ בַּלָּ֔אט וַתִּתְקַ֤ע אֶת־הַיָּתֵד֙ בְּרַקָּת֔וֹ וַתִּצְנַ֖ח בָּאָ֑רֶץ וְהֽוּא־נִרְדָּ֥ם וַיָּ֖עַף וַיָּמֹֽת׃ [Judges 4:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:115` 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. - ← previous: [Judges 4:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.114/) - next →: [Judges 4:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.116/) - ↑ back to [Judges 4:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.21/)