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title: Judges 9:56 (JPS 1917) — Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren; Who acts: God, Abimelech. Judges 9:56 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 9:56 · JPS 1917

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Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;

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**Who acts:** God, Abimelech · **What happens:** requite, do, slay · **To what, where:** wickedness, seventy brethren

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This is Judges 9:56 · 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 (God, 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:316
# text = Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	requited	requite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	slaying	slay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **requite** | past | God | the wickedness of Abimelech |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | Abimelech | the wickedness of Abimelech |  |  |  | unto Abimelech's father | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 3 | **slay** | gerund | Abimelech *not said here* | Abimelech's seventy brethren |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brethren=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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וַיָּ֣שֶׁב אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֵ֖ת רָעַ֣ת אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֤ר עָשָׂה֙ לְאָבִ֔יו לַהֲרֹ֖ג אֶת־שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶחָֽיו׃

[Judges 9:56: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.56/)

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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:316` 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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