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title: Judges 5:2 (JPS 1917) — When men let grow their hair in Israel, when the people offer themse… · tree and pragmatics
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# Judges 5:2 · JPS 1917

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When men let grow their hair in Israel, when the people offer themselves willingly, bless ye the LORD.

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**Who acts:** men, people, ye · **What happens:** let, grow, offer, bless · **To what, where:** hair, Israel, people, LORD

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This is Judges 5:2 · 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 (men, people, ye), 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:120
# text = When men let grow their hair in Israel, when the people offer themselves willingly, bless ye the LORD.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | infinitive | men *not said here* | men's hair |  | Israel |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | present | the people | people |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **bless** | infinitive | ye | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=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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בִּפְרֹ֤עַ פְּרָעוֹת֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּהִתְנַדֵּ֖ב עָ֑ם בָּרֲכ֖וּ יְהוָֽה׃

[Judges 5:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.2/)

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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:120` 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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