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title: Judges 8:30 (JPS 1917) — And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives. Who acts: Gideon, threescore sons. Judges 8:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 8:30 · JPS 1917

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And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives.

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**Who acts:** Gideon, threescore sons · **What happens:** have, beget · **To what, where:** threescore sons, many wives

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This is Judges 8:30 · 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, threescore sons), 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:255
# text = And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Gideon	Gideon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	begotten	beget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Gideon | threescore sons of Gideon's body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beget** | participle | threescore sons of Gideon's body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | Gideon | many wives |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |

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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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וּלְגִדְע֗וֹן הָיוּ֙ שִׁבְעִ֣ים בָּנִ֔ים יֹצְאֵ֖י יְרֵכ֑וֹ כִּֽי־נָשִׁ֥ים רַבּ֖וֹת הָ֥יוּ לֽוֹ׃

[Judges 8:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.30/)

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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:255` 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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