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title: Judges 9:49 (JPS 1917) — And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and follow… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. Who acts: people, men. Judges 9:49 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tr
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# Judges 9:49 · JPS 1917

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And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

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**Who acts:** people, men · **What happens:** cut down, follow, put, set, die · **To what, where:** man, Abimelech, people, hold, fire, thousand men

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This is Judges 9:49 · 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, men), 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:309
# text = And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
33	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
44	also	also	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	about	about	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut down** | past | all people | every man |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bough=Product |
| 2 | **follow** | past | all people *not said here* | Abimelech |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abimelech=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | past | all people *not said here* | people |  |  |  | to the hold | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
| 4 | **set** | past | all people *not said here* | the hold |  | fire |  | upon people | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 5 | **die** | past | all men of the tower of Shechem | thousand men and women |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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וַיִּכְרְת֨וּ גַם־כָּל־הָעָ֜ם אִ֣ישׁ שׂוֹכֹ֗ה וַיֵּ֨לְכ֜וּ אַחֲרֵ֤י אֲבִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙ וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ עַֽל־הַצְּרִ֔יחַ וַיַּצִּ֧יתוּ עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם אֶֽת־הַצְּרִ֖יחַ בָּאֵ֑שׁ וַיָּמֻ֜תוּ גַּ֣ם כָּל־אַנְשֵׁ֧י מִֽגְדַּל־שְׁכֶ֛םמִֽגְדַּל־שְׁכֶ֛ם כְּאֶ֖לֶף אִ֥ישׁ וְאִשָּֽׁה׃פ

[Judges 9:49: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.49/)

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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:309` of Mova's parse database.

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