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title: Judges 5:3 (JPS 1917) — Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, unto the LORD will I si… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, unto the LORD will I sing; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel. Who acts: you, I. Judges 5:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 5:3 · JPS 1917

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Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, unto the LORD will I sing; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** hear, give, sing · **To what, where:** ear, praise, LORD

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This is Judges 5:3 · 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 (you, I), 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:121
# text = Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, unto the LORD will I sing; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
4	ye	ye	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Prs	5	det	_	_
5	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	ye	ye	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Prs	12	det	_	_
12	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	vocative	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	dislocated	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
26	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other, act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ye kings *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | ear |  |  |  | ye princes *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | I |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD; I *dislocated* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | I | praise | the LORD |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent praise=Topic to lord=Recipient |

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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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שִׁמְע֣וּ מְלָכִ֔ים הַאֲזִ֖ינוּ רֹֽזְנִ֑ים אָֽנֹכִ֗י לַֽיהוָה֙ אָנֹכִ֣י אָשִׁ֔ירָה אֲזַמֵּ֕ר לַֽיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Judges 5:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.3/)

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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:121` 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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