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title: Judges 8:2 (JPS 1917) — Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? · tree and pragmatics
description: Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? Who acts: gleaning. Judges 8:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 8:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

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**Who acts:** gleaning · **What happens:** not be

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This is Judges 8:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (gleaning), 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:226
# text = Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gleaning	gleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vintage	vintage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Abiezer	Abiezer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1, act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the gleaning of Ephraim |  |  |  |  | than the vintage of Abiezer; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם מֶה־עָשִׂ֥יתִי עַתָּ֖ה כָּכֶ֑ם הֲל֗וֹא ט֛וֹב עֹלְל֥וֹת אֶפְרַ֖יִם מִבְצִ֥יר אֲבִיעֶֽזֶר׃

[Judges 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And he said unto them: 'What have I now done in comparison with you?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.225/)
2. **Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?**

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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:226` 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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