--- title: Judges 6:17 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thy sight, then… · tree and pragmatics description: And he said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me. Who acts: LORD, I, sign, thy. 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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, sign, thy), 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:175 # text = And he said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me. 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 iobj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 8 If if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 13 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 acl _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 talkest talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | LORD | | angel | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | I | favour | | thy sight | now | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | | 3 | **show** | infinitive | | a sign | me | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sign=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | sign | thou | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **talk** | present | | | | | | with me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | | 6 | **sight** | | thy | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו אִם־נָ֛א מָצָ֥אתִי חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ לִּי֙ א֔וֹת שָׁאַתָּ֖ה מְדַבֵּ֥ר עִמִּֽי׃ [Judges 6:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:175` 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 6:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.174/) - next →: [Judges 6:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.176/) - ↑ back to [Judges 6:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.17/)