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title: Judges 9:29 (JPS 1917) — And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove A… · tree and pragmatics
description: And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech.' And he said to Abimelech: 'Increase thine army, and come out.' Who acts: people, I, Abimelech. Judges 9:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 9:29 · JPS 1917

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And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech.' And he said to Abimelech: 'Increase thine army, and come out.'

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**Who acts:** people, I, Abimelech · **What happens:** be, remove, say, increase, come out · **To what, where:** hand, Abimelech, army · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 9:29 · 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 (people, I, 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:289
# text = And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech.' And he said to Abimelech: 'Increase thine army, and come out.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
15	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
26	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | this people |  |  | my hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remove** | would | I | Abimelech |  |  | then |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abimelech=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abimelech |  | Abimelech |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to abimelech=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **increase** | infinitive |  | thine army |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer army=Patient |
| 5 | **come out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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וּמִ֨י יִתֵּ֜ן אֶת־הָעָ֤ם הַזֶּה֙ בְּיָדִ֔י וְאָסִ֖ירָה אֶת־אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לַאֲבִימֶ֔לֶךְ רַבֶּ֥ה צְבָאֲךָ֖ וָצֵֽאָה׃

[Judges 9:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.29/)

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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:289` 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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