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title: Judges 5:21 (JPS 1917) — The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kish… · tree and pragmatics
description: The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon. Who acts: brook. Judges 5:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 5:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon.

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**Who acts:** brook · **What happens:** sweep away · **To what, where:** kings

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This is Judges 5:21 · 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 (brook), 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:144
# text = The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Kishon	Kishon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Kishon	Kishon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep away** | past | the brook | kings *= king* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |

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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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נַ֤חַל קִישׁוֹן֙ גְּרָפָ֔ם נַ֥חַל קְדוּמִ֖ים נַ֣חַל קִישׁ֑וֹן תִּדְרְכִ֥י נַפְשִׁ֖י עֹֽז׃

[Judges 5:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.21/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon.**
2. [O my soul, tread them down with strength.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.145/)

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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:144` 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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