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title: Judges 9:16 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands — Who acts: ye, Abimelech. Judges 9:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Judges 9:16 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands —

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**Who acts:** ye, Abimelech · **What happens:** deal, make, king, do, accord

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This is Judges 9:16 · 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 (ye, 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:276
# text = Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands —
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
8	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	uprightly	uprightly	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Jerubbaal	Jerubbaal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	case	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	deserving	deserve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **deal** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  | now | therefore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **king** |  | Abimelech |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **deal** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  |  | with Jerubbaal and king's house; well *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jerubbaal=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | present · perfect | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto king; accord the deserving of king's hands | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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וְעַתָּ֗ה אִם־בֶּאֱמֶ֤ת וּבְתָמִים֙ עֲשִׂיתֶ֔ם וַתַּמְלִ֖יכוּ אֶת־אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ וְאִם־טוֹבָ֤ה עֲשִׂיתֶם֙ עִם־יְרֻבַּ֣עַל וְעִם־בֵּית֔וֹ וְאִם־כִּגְמ֥וּל יָדָ֖יו עֲשִׂ֥יתֶם לֽוֹ׃

[Judges 9:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.16/)

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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:276` of Mova's parse database.

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