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title: Judges 9:13 (JPS 1917) — And the vine said unto them: Should I leave my wine, which cheereth… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the vine said unto them: Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to hold sway over the trees? Who acts: vine, I, wine. Judges 9:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 9:13 · JPS 1917

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And the vine said unto them: Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to hold sway over the trees?

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**Who acts:** vine, I, wine · **What happens:** say, leave, cheer, go, hold · **To what, where:** wine, God, sway, trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 9:13 · 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 (vine, I, wine), 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:273
# text = And the vine said unto them: Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to hold sway over the trees?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cheereth	cheer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	sway	sway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the vine |  |  |  |  | unto trees *= tree* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | should | I | my wine |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Theme |
| 3 | **cheer** | present | my wine | God and man |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus god=Experiencer |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **hold** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | sway |  | the trees |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sway=Theme over tree=Location |

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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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וַתֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ הַגֶּ֔פֶן הֶחֳדַ֙לְתִּי֙ אֶת־תִּ֣ירוֹשִׁ֔י הַֽמְשַׂמֵּ֥חַ אֱלֹהִ֖ים וַאֲנָשִׁ֑ים וְהָ֣לַכְתִּ֔י לָנ֖וּעַ עַל־הָעֵצִֽים׃

[Judges 9:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.13/)

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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:273` 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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