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title: Judges 8:25 (JPS 1917) — And they answered: 'We will willingly give them.' And they spread a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they answered: 'We will willingly give them.' And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil. Who acts: men, We, Gideon. Judges 8:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 8:25 · JPS 1917

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And they answered: 'We will willingly give them.' And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.

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**Who acts:** men, We, Gideon · **What happens:** answer, give, spread, cast, spoil · **To what, where:** men, garment, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 8:25 · 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 (men, We, Gideon), 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:249
# text = And they answered: 'We will willingly give them.' And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | future | We | men *= man* |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | past | men *= man* | a garment |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garment=Theme |
| 4 | **cast** | past · do-support | men *= man* *not said here* | every man |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Product |
| 5 | **spoil** |  | Gideon |  |  |  |  |  | nom spoil «possession transitive»: poss=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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וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ נָת֣וֹן נִתֵּ֑ן וַֽיִּפְרְשׂוּ֙ אֶת־הַשִּׂמְלָ֔ה וַיַּשְׁלִ֣יכוּ שָׁ֔מָּה אִ֖ישׁ נֶ֥זֶם שְׁלָלֽוֹ׃

[Judges 8:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.25/)

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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:249` 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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