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title: Judges 1:15 (JPS 1917) — And she said unto him: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set m… · tree and pragmatics
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# Judges 1:15 · JPS 1917

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And she said unto him: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the Southland, give me therefore springs of water.' And Caleb gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.

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**Who acts:** Achsah, thou, Caleb · **What happens:** say, give, set · **To what, where:** blessing, me, Southland, Upper Springs, Achsah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 1:15 · 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 (Achsah, thou, Caleb), 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:14
# text = And she said unto him: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the Southland, give me therefore springs of water.' And Caleb gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Southland	Southland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	Caleb	Caleb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Upper	Upper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
37	Springs	Springs	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Nether	Nether	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
41	Springs	Springs	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Achsah |  |  |  |  | unto Caleb | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | a blessing | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient blessing=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | present · perfect | thou | me |  | the Southland |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in southland=Destination |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive |  |  | me |  | spring | therefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past | Caleb | the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs | Achsah |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient springs=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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וַתֹּ֨אמֶר ל֜וֹ הָֽבָה־לִּ֣י בְרָכָ֗ה כִּ֣י אֶ֤רֶץ הַנֶּ֙גֶב֙ נְתַתָּ֔נִי וְנָתַתָּ֥ה לִ֖י גֻּלֹּ֣ת מָ֑יִם וַיִּתֶּן־לָ֣הּ כָּלֵ֗ב אֵ֚ת גֻּלֹּ֣ת עִלִּ֔ית וְאֵ֖ת גֻּלֹּ֥ת תַּחְתִּֽית׃פ

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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:14` of Mova's parse database.

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