--- title: Judges 6:15 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto him: 'Oh, my lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? b… · tree and pragmatics description: And he said unto him: 'Oh, my lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.' Who acts: LORD, I, family. 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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 (LORD, I, family), 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:173 # text = And he said unto him: 'Oh, my lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|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 : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 8 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 vocative _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 wherewith wherewith ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 17 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 19 behold behold INTJ UH _ 25 discourse _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 poorest poor ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 parataxis _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Manasseh Manasseh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | LORD | | | | | unto angel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **save** | shall | I | Israel | | | | my lord *vocative*; wherewith *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent israel=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | my family | | | Manasseh | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | I | | | my father's house | | least *property* | tree rules | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנָ֔י בַּמָּ֥ה אוֹשִׁ֖יעַ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל הִנֵּ֤ה אַלְפִּי֙ הַדַּ֣ל בִּמְנַשֶּׁ֔ה וְאָנֹכִ֥י הַצָּעִ֖יר בְּבֵ֥ית אָבִֽי׃ [Judges 6:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:173` 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. - ← previous: [Judges 6:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.172/) - next →: [Judges 6:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.174/) - ↑ back to [Judges 6:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.15/)