--- title: Judges 8:5 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto the men of Succoth: 'Give, I pray you, loaves of br… · tree and pragmatics description: And he said unto the men of Succoth: 'Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.' Who acts: God, I, people, men. 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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, people, men), 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:229 # text = And he said unto the men of Succoth: 'Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Succoth Succoth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 loaves loaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 unto unto ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 pursuing pursue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Zebah Zebah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 Zalmunna Zalmunna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 appos _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Midian Midian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | God | | | | | unto the men of Succoth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** | infinitive | | loaves of bread | | | | unto the people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme | | 3 | **pray** | present | I | | you | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **follow** | present | the people | me | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | men *= man* | | | | | faint *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **pursue** | present · progressive | I | | | | after Zebah and Zalmunna | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after zebah=Theme | 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} וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לְאַנְשֵׁ֣י סֻכּ֔וֹת תְּנוּ־נָא֙ כִּכְּר֣וֹת לֶ֔חֶם לָעָ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּרַגְלָ֑י כִּי־עֲיֵפִ֣ים הֵ֔ם וְאָנֹכִ֗י רֹדֵ֛ף אַחֲרֵ֛י זֶ֥בַח וְצַלְמֻנָּ֖ע מַלְכֵ֥י מִדְיָֽן׃ [Judges 8:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:229` 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 8:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.228/) - next →: [Judges 8:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.230/) - ↑ back to [Judges 8:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.5/)