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title: Judges 8:23 (JPS 1917) — And Gideon said unto them: 'I will not rule over you, neither shall… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Gideon said unto them: 'I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you.' Who acts: Gideon, I, son, LORD. Judges 8:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 8:23 · JPS 1917

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And Gideon said unto them: 'I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you.'

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**Who acts:** Gideon, I, son, LORD · **What happens:** say, not rule, rule · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 8:23 · 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 (Gideon, I, son, LORD), 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:247
# text = And Gideon said unto them: 'I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Gideon	Gideon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gideon |  |  |  |  | unto men *= man* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **rule** | future | I |  |  |  |  | over you | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rule** | shall | my son |  |  |  |  | over you | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rule** | shall | the LORD |  |  |  |  | over you | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ גִּדְע֔וֹן לֹֽא־אֶמְשֹׁ֤ל אֲנִי֙ בָּכֶ֔ם וְלֹֽא־יִמְשֹׁ֥ל בְּנִ֖י בָּכֶ֑ם יְהוָ֖ה יִמְשֹׁ֥ל בָּכֶֽם׃

[Judges 8:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.23/)

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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:247` 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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