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title: Judges 1:17 (JPS 1917) — And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanite… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. Who acts: Judah, children, Canaanites. Judges 1:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 1:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.

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**Who acts:** Judah, children, Canaanites · **What happens:** go, smite, inhabit, destroy · **To what, where:** Canaanites, Zephath, blessing

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This is Judges 1:17 · 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 (Judah, children, Canaanites), 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:16
# text = And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Simeon	Simeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Canaanites	Canaanite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	Zephath	Zephath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **go** | past | Judah |  |  |  |  | with Simeon | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with simeon=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **smite** | past | children *= child* | the Canaanites |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus canaanite=Experiencer |
| 3 | **inhabit** | past | the Canaanites | Zephath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **destroy** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | blessing |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ יְהוּדָה֙ אֶת־שִׁמְע֣וֹן אָחִ֔יו וַיַּכּ֕וּ אֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י יוֹשֵׁ֣ב צְפַ֑ת וַיַּחֲרִ֣ימוּ אוֹתָ֔הּ וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שֵׁם־הָעִ֖יר חָרְמָֽה׃

[Judges 1:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.**
2. [And the name of the city was called Hormah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.17/)

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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:16` 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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