--- title: Judges 8:3 (JPS 1917) — God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Ze… · tree and pragmatics description: God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do in comparison with you?' Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. Who acts: God, I, princes. 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Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. **Who acts:** God, I, princes · **What happens:** deliver, be, do, abate, say, anger · **To what, where:** princes, hand, comparison, anger, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Judges 8:3 · 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 (God, I, princes), 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:227 # text = God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do in comparison with you?' Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. 1 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 delivered deliver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Midian Midian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Oreb Oreb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Zeeb Zeeb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 obj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 comparison comparison NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ _ 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 29 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 abated abate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 34 toward toward ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 when when SCONJ WRB _ 40 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 41 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **deliver** | present · perfect | God | the princes of Midian and Oreb and Zeeb | | your hand | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | I | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | comparison with you | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **abate** | past · passive | | princes's anger | | | then | toward Midian | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | God | that | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | | 6 | **anger** | | princes *= prince* | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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} בְּיֶדְכֶם֩ נָתַ֨ן אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־שָׂרֵ֤י מִדְיָן֙ אֶת־עֹרֵ֣ב וְאֶת־זְאֵ֔ב וּמַה־יָּכֹ֖לְתִּי עֲשׂ֣וֹת כָּכֶ֑ם אָ֗ז רָפְתָ֤ה רוּחָם֙ מֵֽעָלָ֔יו בְּדַבְּר֖וֹ הַדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃ [Judges 8:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:227` 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 8:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.226/) - next →: [Judges 8:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.228/) - ↑ back to [Judges 8:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.3/)