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title: Judges 5:31 (JPS 1917) — So perish all Thine enemies, O LORD; but they that love Him be as th… · tree and pragmatics
description: So perish all Thine enemies, O LORD; but they that love Him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. Who acts: you, enemies, LORD. Judges 5:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 5:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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So perish all Thine enemies, O LORD; but they that love Him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.

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**Who acts:** you, enemies, LORD · **What happens:** perish, love, be, go · **To what, where:** enemies, LORD, might

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This is Judges 5:31 · 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 (you, enemies, LORD), 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:157
# text = So perish all Thine enemies, O LORD; but they that love Him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	perish	perish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl	_	_
22	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	might	might	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **perish** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thine enemies |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | present |  | LORD |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  |  | as the sun | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | present | LORD |  |  | LORD's might |  | forth *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in might=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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כֵּ֠ן יֹאבְד֤וּ כָל־אוֹיְבֶ֙יךָ֙ יְהוָ֔ה וְאֹ֣הֲבָ֔יו כְּצֵ֥את הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ בִּגְבֻרָת֑וֹ וַתִּשְׁקֹ֥ט הָאָ֖רֶץ אַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה׃פ

[Judges 5:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.31/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **So perish all Thine enemies, O LORD; but they that love Him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.**
2. [And the land had rest forty years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.158/)

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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:157` 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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