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title: Judges 1:34 (JPS 1917) — And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; f… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley. Who acts: Amorites. Judges 1:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 1:34 · JPS 1917

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And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley.

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**Who acts:** Amorites · **What happens:** force, not suffer, come down · **To what, where:** children, hill country, valley

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This is Judges 1:34 · 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 (Amorites), 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:34
# text = And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Amorites	Amorites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Dan	Dan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **force** | past | the Amorites |  | the children of Dan | the hill country |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **suffer** | would | Amorites | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come down** | to-infinitive | Amorites *not said here* |  |  | the valley |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to valley=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיִּלְחֲצ֧וּ הָאֱמֹרִ֛י אֶת־בְּנֵי־דָ֖ן הָהָ֑רָה כִּי־לֹ֥א נְתָנ֖וֹ לָרֶ֥דֶת לָעֵֽמֶק׃

[Judges 1:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.34/)

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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:34` 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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