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title: Judges 9:57 (JPS 1917) — and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon th… · tree and pragmatics
description: and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads; and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. Who acts: God, curse. Judges 9:57 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 9:57 · JPS 1917

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and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads; and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

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**Who acts:** God, curse · **What happens:** requite, come, curse · **To what, where:** wickedness, Jotham

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This is Judges 9:57 · 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, curse), 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:317
# text = and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads; and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	requite	requite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Jotham	Jotham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Jerubbaal	Jerubbaal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **requite** | past · do-support | God | all wickedness of the men of Shechem |  |  |  | upon men's heads | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the curse of Jotham |  |  |  |  | upon men *= man* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 3 | **curse** |  |  | Jotham |  |  |  |  | nom curse «communication transitive»: of=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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וְאֵ֗ת כָּל־רָעַת֙ אַנְשֵׁ֣י שְׁכֶ֔ם הֵשִׁ֥יב אֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּרֹאשָׁ֑ם וַתָּבֹ֣א אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם קִֽלֲלַ֖ת יוֹתָ֥ם בֶּן־יְרֻבָּֽעַל׃פ

[Judges 9:57: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.57/)

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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:317` 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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