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title: Judges 10:18 (JPS 1917) — And the people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another: 'What ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another: 'What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.' Who acts: people, man. Judges 10:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 10:18 · JPS 1917

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And the people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another: 'What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.'

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**Who acts:** people, man · **What happens:** say, be, begin, fight · **To what, where:** one, another, man, head, inhabitants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 10:18 · 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, man), 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:336
# text = And the people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another: 'What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	ccomp	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Ammon	Ammon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the people | one | another |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Topic to another=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | what man | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | against the children of Ammon | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | shall | man | head |  | all inhabitants of Gilead |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ הָעָ֜ם שָׂרֵ֤י גִלְעָד֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֔הוּ מִ֣י הָאִ֔ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָחֵ֔ל לְהִלָּחֵ֖ם בִּבְנֵ֣י עַמּ֑וֹן יִֽהְיֶ֣ה לְרֹ֔אשׁ לְכֹ֖ל יֹשְׁבֵ֥י גִלְעָֽד׃פ

[Judges 10:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.10.18/)

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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:336` 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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