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title: Judges 11:2 (JPS 1917) — And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, t… · tree and pragmatics
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# Judges 11:2 · JPS 1917

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And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him: 'Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of another woman.'

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**Who acts:** wife, sons, man, Thou · **What happens:** bear, grow up, drive out, say, not inherit, be · **To what, where:** sons, Gilead, Jephthah, house, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 11:2 · 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 (wife, sons, man, Thou), 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:338
# text = And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him: 'Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of another woman.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	Jephthah	Jephthah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
29	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
30	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	inherit	inherit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
39	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nsubj	_	_
41	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	advcl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | Gilead's wife | sons | Gilead |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary son=Patient |
| 2 | **grow up** | past | Gilead's wife's sons |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive out** | past | man | Jephthah |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jephthah=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Gilead | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **inherit** | shall | Thou |  |  | our father's house |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | thou | the son |  |  |  | of another woman | 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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וַתֵּ֧לֶד אֵֽשֶׁת־גִּלְעָ֛ד ל֖וֹ בָּנִ֑ים וַיִּגְדְּל֨וּ בְֽנֵי־הָאִשָּׁ֜ה וַיְגָרְשׁ֣וּ אֶת־יִפְתָּ֗ח וַיֹּ֤אמְרוּ לוֹ֙ לֹֽא־תִנְחַ֣ל בְּבֵית־אָבִ֔ינוּ כִּ֛י בֶּן־אִשָּׁ֥ה אַחֶ֖רֶת אָֽתָּה׃

[Judges 11:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.2/)

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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:338` of Mova's parse database.

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