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title: Judges 9:15 (JPS 1917) — And the bramble said unto the trees: If in truth ye anoint me king o… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the bramble said unto the trees: If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. Who acts: bramble, ye, fire, my. Judges 9:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Judges 9:15 · JPS 1917

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And the bramble said unto the trees: If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

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**Who acts:** bramble, ye, fire, my · **What happens:** say, anoint, come, take, not let, come out · **To what, where:** me, truth, refuge, shadow, fire, bramble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 9:15 · 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 (bramble, ye, fire, my), 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:275
# text = And the bramble said unto the trees: If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bramble	bramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	anoint	anoint	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	not	not	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
33	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bramble	bramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	cedars	cedar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bramble |  |  |  |  | unto the trees | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **anoint** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye | me |  | truth |  | over you | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Result |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | refuge |  | my shadow |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in shadow=Location |
| 5 | **not** **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive |  | fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come out** | infinitive | fire *not said here* | the bramble |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bramble=Result |
| 7 | **devour** | infinitive | fire *not said here* | the cedars of Lebanon |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cedar=Patient |
| 8 | **shadow** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state 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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הָאָטָד֮ אֶל־הָעֵצִים֒ אִ֡ם בֶּאֱמֶ֣ת אַתֶּם֩ מֹשְׁחִ֨ים אֹתִ֤י לְמֶ֙לֶךְ֙ עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם בֹּ֖אוּ חֲס֣וּ בְצִלִּ֑י וְאִם־אַ֕יִן תֵּ֤צֵא אֵשׁ֙ מִן־הָ֣אָטָ֔ד וְתֹאכַ֖ל אֶת־אַרְזֵ֥י הַלְּבָנֽוֹן׃

[Judges 9:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.15/)

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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:275` of Mova's parse database.

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