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title: Judges 6:29 (JPS 1917) — And they said one to another: 'Who hath done this thing?' And when t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they said one to another: 'Who hath done this thing?' And when they inquired and asked, they said: 'Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.' Who acts: bullock, Gideon. Judges 6:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 6:29 · JPS 1917

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And they said one to another: 'Who hath done this thing?' And when they inquired and asked, they said: 'Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.'

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**Who acts:** bullock, Gideon · **What happens:** say, do, inquire, ask · **To what, where:** thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 6:29 · 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 (bullock, Gideon), 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:187
# text = And they said one to another: 'Who hath done this thing?' And when they inquired and asked, they said: 'Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	PRON	CD	_	3	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Rcp	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
27	Gideon	Gideon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Joash	Joash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other, act=narrate, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bullock |  |  |  |  | to another | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to another=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect |  | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | bullock |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | bullock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bullock |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** | present · perfect | Gideon | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֔הוּ מִ֥י עָשָׂ֖ה הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֑ה וַֽיִּדְרְשׁוּ֙ וַיְבַקְשׁ֔וּ וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ גִּדְעוֹן֙ בֶּן־יוֹאָ֔שׁ עָשָׂ֖ה הַדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃

[Judges 6:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.29/)

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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:187` 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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