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title: Judges 10:9 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also again… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was sore distressed. Who acts: children. Judges 10:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 10:9 · JPS 1917

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And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was sore distressed.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** pass, fight, distress · **To what, where:** Jordan, Israel

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This is Judges 10:9 · 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 (children), 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:326
# text = And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was sore distressed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ammon	Ammon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	sore	sore	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	distressed	distress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **pass** | past | the children of Ammon |  |  | the Jordan |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over jordan=Location |
| 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the children of Ammon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **distress** | past · passive |  | Israel |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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וַיַּעַבְר֤וּ בְנֵֽי־עַמּוֹן֙ אֶת־הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן לְהִלָּחֵ֛ם גַּם־בִּיהוּדָ֥ה וּבְבִנְיָמִ֖ין וּבְבֵ֣ית אֶפְרָ֑יִם וַתֵּ֥צֶר לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מְאֹֽד׃

[Judges 10:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.10.9/)

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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:326` 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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