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title: Judges 5:16 (JPS 1917) — Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? Who acts: thou. Judges 5:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 5:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** sat, hear · **To what, where:** pipings

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This is Judges 5:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (thou), 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:137
# text = Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	sattest	sat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sheepfolds	sheepfold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pipings	piping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sat** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | among the sheepfolds | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | the pipings |  |  |  | for the flocks | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer piping=Stimulus |

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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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לָ֣מָּה יָשַׁ֗בְתָּ בֵּ֚ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתַ֔יִם לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ שְׁרִק֣וֹת עֲדָרִ֑ים לִפְלַגּ֣וֹת רְאוּבֵ֔ן גְּדוֹלִ֖ים חִקְרֵי־לֵֽב׃

[Judges 5:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks?**
2. [At the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.138/)

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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:137` 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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