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title: Judges 9:5 (JPS 1917) — And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself. Who acts: Abimelech. Judges 9:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Judges 9:5 · JPS 1917

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And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

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**Who acts:** Abimelech · **What happens:** go, slay, be, leave, hide · **To what, where:** Ophrah, brethren, threescore persons, Jotham, Abimelech

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This is Judges 9:5 · 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 (Abimelech), 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:265
# text = And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ophrah	Ophrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Jerubbaal	Jerubbaal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
22	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
25	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
32	Jotham	Jotham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Jerubbaal	Jerubbaal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
41	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
44	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **go** | past | Abimelech |  |  | Ophrah |  | unto Abimelech's house | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at ophrah=Location |
| 2 | **slay** | past | Abimelech *not said here* | Abimelech's brethren |  |  |  | upon one stone | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brethren=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | Abimelech *not said here* | threescore persons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Jotham |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **hide** | past | Abimelech | Abimelech |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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וַיָּבֹ֤א בֵית־אָבִיו֙ עָפְרָ֔תָה וַֽיַּהֲרֹ֞ג אֶת־אֶחָ֧יו בְּנֵֽי־יְרֻבַּ֛עַל שִׁבְּעִ֥יםאִ֖ישׁ עַל־אֶ֣בֶן אֶחָ֑ת וַיִּוָּתֵ֞ר יוֹתָ֧ם בֶּן־יְרֻבַּ֛עַל הַקָּטֹ֖ן כִּ֥י נֶחְבָּֽא׃ס

[Judges 9:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.5/)

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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:265` of Mova's parse database.

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