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title: Judges 6:26 (JPS 1917) — and build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this strong… · tree and pragmatics
description: and build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this stronghold, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt-offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou shalt cut down.' Who acts: you, thou. Judges 6:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Judges 6:26 · JPS 1917

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and build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this stronghold, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt-offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou shalt cut down.'

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** build, order, take, offer, burn, cut down · **To what, where:** altar, ordered place, second bullock, burnt offering, wood

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This is Judges 6:26 · JPS 1917 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, thou), 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:184
# text = and build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this stronghold, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt-offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou shalt cut down.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	amod	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	offer	offer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Asherah	Asherah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obj	_	_
41	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nsubj	_	_
42	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl:relcl	_	_
44	down	down	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | imperative | you *not said here* | a altar |  | the ordered place |  | unto the LORD; upon the top of this stronghold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset altar=Product |
| 2 | **order** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the second bullock |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme |
| 4 | **offer** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a burnt offering |  |  |  | with the wood of the Asherah | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 5 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cut down** | shall | thou | the wood of the Asherah |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product |

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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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וּבָנִ֨יתָ מִזְבֵּ֜חַ לַיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ עַ֣ל רֹ֧אשׁ הַמָּע֛וֹז הַזֶּ֖ה בַּמַּֽעֲרָכָ֑ה וְלָֽקַחְתָּ֙ אֶת־הַפָּ֣ר הַשֵּׁנִ֔י וְהַעֲלִ֣יתָ עוֹלָ֔ה בַּעֲצֵ֥י הָאֲשֵׁרָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר תִּכְרֹֽת׃

[Judges 6:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.26/)

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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:184` 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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