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title: Judges 7:20 (JPS 1917) — And the three companies blew the horns, and broke the pitchers, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the three companies blew the horns, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried: 'The sword for the LORD and for Gideon!' Who acts: three companies, horns. Judges 7:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 
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# Judges 7:20 · JPS 1917

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And the three companies blew the horns, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried: 'The sword for the LORD and for Gideon!'

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**Who acts:** three companies, horns · **What happens:** blow, break, hold, cry · **To what, where:** horns, pitchers, torches, left hands

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This is Judges 7:20 · 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 (three companies, horns), 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:218
# text = And the three companies blew the horns, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried: 'The sword for the LORD and for Gideon!'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pitchers	pitcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
39	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	ccomp	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Gideon	Gideon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
47	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the three companies | the horns |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | past | the three companies *not said here* | the pitchers |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pitcher=Patient |
| 3 | **hold** | past | the three companies *not said here* | the torches |  | horns's left hands and the horns in horns's right hands |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent torch=Theme in hand=Location |
| 4 | **blow** | to-infinitive | the three companies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wherewith *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | horns *= horn* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַֽ֠יִּתְקְעוּ שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת הָרָאשִׁ֥ים בַּשּֽׁוֹפָרוֹת֮ וַיִּשְׁבְּר֣וּ הַכַּדִּים֒ וַיַּחֲזִ֤יקוּ בְיַד־שְׂמאוֹלָם֙בַּלַּפִּדִ֔ים וּבְיַ֨ד־יְמִינָ֔ם הַשּׁוֹפָר֖וֹת לִתְק֑וֹעַ וַֽיִּקְרְא֔וּ חֶ֥רֶב לַֽיהוָ֖ה וּלְגִדְעֽוֹן׃

[Judges 7:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.7.20/)

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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:218` of Mova's parse database.

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