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title: Judges 5:28 (JPS 1917) — Through the window she looked forth, and peered, the mother of Siser… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the window she looked forth, and peered, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Who acts: Jael, mother, chariot. Judges 5:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 5:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Through the window she looked forth, and peered, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming?

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**Who acts:** Jael, mother, chariot · **What happens:** look, peer, be, come

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This is Judges 5:28 · 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 (Jael, mother, chariot), 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:152
# text = Through the window she looked forth, and peered, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming?
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	peered	peer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Sisera	Sisera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lattice	lattice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Jael |  |  |  |  | through the window; forth *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme |
| 2 | **peer** | past | the mother of Sisera |  |  |  |  | through the lattice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through lattice=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Sisera's chariot |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | Sisera's chariot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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בְּעַד֩ הַחַלּ֨וֹן נִשְׁקְפָ֧ה וַתְּיַבֵּ֛ב אֵ֥ם סִֽיסְרָ֖א בְּעַ֣ד הָֽאֶשְׁנָ֑ב מַדּ֗וּעַ בֹּשֵׁ֤שׁ רִכְבּוֹ֙ לָב֔וֹא מַדּ֣וּעַ אֶֽחֱר֔וּ פַּעֲמֵ֖י מַרְכְּבוֹתָֽיו׃

[Judges 5:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.28/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Through the window she looked forth, and peered, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming?**
2. [Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.153/)

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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:152` of Mova's parse database.

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