--- title: Judges 8:10 (JPS 1917) — Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, ab… · tree and pragmatics description: Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the host of the children of the east; for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. Who acts: Zebah, hundred 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 (Zebah, hundred 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:234 # text = Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the host of the children of the east; for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 Zebah Zebah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Zalmunna Zalmunna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Karkor Karkor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 compound _ _ 17 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 appos _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 37 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 conj _ _ 42 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 conj _ _ 43 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 44 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is** | past | Zebah and Zalmunna | | | Karkor and Zebah's hosts with hosts | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | past · passive | | | | | | of all host of the children of the east | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of host=Destination | | 3 | **fall** | past | hundred men | | | there | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **draw** | past | hundred men | sword | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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} וְזֶ֨בַח וְצַלְמֻנָּ֜ע בַּקַּרְקֹ֗ר וּמַחֲנֵיהֶ֤ם עִמָּם֙ כַּחֲמֵ֤שֶׁת עָשָׂר֙ אֶ֔לֶף כֹּ֚ל הַנּ֣וֹתָרִ֔ים מִכֹּ֖ל מַחֲנֵ֣ה בְנֵי־קֶ֑דֶם וְהַנֹּ֣פְלִ֔ים מֵאָ֨ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ שֹׁ֥לֵֽף חָֽרֶב׃ [Judges 8:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:234` 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 8:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.233/) - next →: [Judges 8:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.235/) - ↑ back to [Judges 8:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.10/)