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title: Judges 11:5 (JPS 1917) — And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Isra… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob. Who acts: it, children, elders. Judges 11:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 11:5 · JPS 1917

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And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

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**Who acts:** it, children, elders · **What happens:** be, make, go, fetch · **To what, where:** war, Jephthah, land

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This is Judges 11:5 · 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 (it, children, elders), 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:341
# text = And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Ammon	Ammon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	csubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	Jephthah	Jephthah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Tob	Tob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | the children of Ammon | war |  |  |  | against Israel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Product |
| 3 | **go** | past | the elders of Gilead |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the elders of Gilead *not said here* | Jephthah |  | the land of Tob |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jephthah=Theme |

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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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וַיְהִ֕י כַּאֲשֶׁר־נִלְחֲמ֥וּ בְנֵֽי־עַמּ֖וֹן עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙ זִקְנֵ֣י גִלְעָ֔ד לָקַ֥חַת אֶת־יִפְתָּ֖ח מֵאֶ֥רֶץ טֽוֹב׃

[Judges 11:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.5/)

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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:341` 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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