--- title: Judges 5:11 (JPS 1917) — Louder than the voice of archers, by the watering-troughs! there sha… · tree and pragmatics description: Louder than the voice of archers, by the watering-troughs! there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts of His rulers in Israel. Who acts: troughs, LORD, rulers. 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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 (troughs, LORD, rulers), 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:130 # text = Louder than the voice of archers, by the watering-troughs! there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts of His rulers in Israel. 1 Louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 advcl _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 archers archer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 watering watering NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 troughs trough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 14 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rehearse rehearse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 righteous righteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 acts act NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 righteous righteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 acts act NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=character, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rehearse** | shall | troughs *= trough* | the righteous acts of the LORD | | there | | | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme | | 2 | **act** | | the LORD | | | | | | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 3 | **act** | | LORD's rulers in Israel | | | | | | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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} מִקּ֣וֹל מְחַֽצְצִ֗ים בֵּ֚ין מַשְׁאַבִּ֔ים שָׁ֤ם יְתַנּוּ֙ צִדְק֣וֹת יְהוָ֔ה צִדְקֹ֥ת פִּרְזֹנ֖וֹ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אָ֛ז יָרְד֥וּ לַשְּׁעָרִ֖ים עַם־יְהוָֽה׃ [Judges 5:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.11/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Louder than the voice of archers, by the watering-troughs! there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts of His rulers in Israel.** 2. [Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.131/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:130` 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 5:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.129/) - next →: [Judges 5:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.131/) - ↑ back to [Judges 5:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.11/)