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title: Judges 5:14 (JPS 1917) — Out of Ephraim came they whose root is in Amalek; after thee, Benjam… · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of Ephraim came they whose root is in Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the marshal's staff. Who acts: people, root. Judges 5:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 5:14 · JPS 1917

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Out of Ephraim came they whose root is in Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the marshal's staff.

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**Who acts:** people, root · **What happens:** come, be, come down, handle · **To what, where:** Ephraim, Amalek, governors, Machir, staff

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This is Judges 5:14 · 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 (people, root), 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:134
# text = Out of Ephraim came they whose root is in Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the marshal's staff.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Amalek	Amalek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Machir	Machir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	governors	governor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Zebulun	Zebulun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	conj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	handle	handle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	marshal	marshal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | people |  |  | Ephraim |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out ephraim=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | root |  |  | Amalek |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come down** | past |  | governors |  | Machir | after thee | among thy peoples | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out machir=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **handle** | present |  | the marshal's staff |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=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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מִנִּ֣י אֶפְרַ֗יִם שָׁרְשָׁם֙ בַּעֲמָלֵ֔ק אַחֲרֶ֥יךָ בִנְיָמִ֖ין בַּֽעֲמָמֶ֑יךָ מִנִּ֣י מָכִ֗יר יָֽרְדוּ֙ מְחֹ֣קְקִ֔ים וּמִ֨זְּבוּלֻ֔ן מֹשְׁכִ֖ים בְּשֵׁ֥בֶט סֹפֵֽר׃

[Judges 5:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.14/)

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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:134` 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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