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title: Judges 5:17 (JPS 1917) — Gilead abode beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why doth he sojourn by the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gilead abode beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why doth he sojourn by the ships? Who acts: Gilead. Judges 5:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 5:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Gilead abode beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why doth he sojourn by the ships?

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**Who acts:** Gilead · **What happens:** abide, sojourn

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This is Judges 5:17 · 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 (Gilead), 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:139
# text = Gilead abode beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why doth he sojourn by the ships?
1	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	abode	abide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	Dan	Dan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	dislocated	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sojourn	sojourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **abide** | past | Gilead |  |  |  |  | beyond the Jordan | tree rules |
| 2 | **sojourn** | present · do-support | Gilead |  |  |  |  | by the ships; Dan *dislocated* | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ship=Location |

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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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גִּלְעָ֗ד בְּעֵ֤בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן֙ שָׁכֵ֔ן וְדָ֕ן לָ֥מָּה יָג֖וּר אֳנִיּ֑וֹת אָשֵׁ֗ר יָשַׁב֙ לְח֣וֹף יַמִּ֔ים וְעַ֥ל מִפְרָצָ֖יו יִשְׁכּֽוֹן׃

[Judges 5:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Gilead abode beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why doth he sojourn by the ships?**
2. [Asher dwelt at the shore of the sea, and abideth by its bays.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.140/)

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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:139` 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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