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title: Judges 11:20 (JPS 1917) — But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon g… · tree and pragmatics
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# Judges 11:20 · JPS 1917

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But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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**Who acts:** Sihon · **What happens:** not trust, pass, gather, pitch, fight · **To what, where:** Israel, border, people, Jahaz

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This is Judges 11:20 · 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 (Sihon), 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:357
# text = But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Sihon	Sihon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Sihon	Sihon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Jahaz	Jahaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **not** **trust** | past | Sihon | Israel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Sihon *not said here* |  |  | Israel's border |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through border=Location |
| 3 | **gather** | past | Sihon | Israel's people |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **pitch** | past | Sihon *not said here* |  |  | Jahaz |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in jahaz=Destination |
| 5 | **fight** | past | Sihon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Israel | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְלֹא־הֶאֱמִ֨ין סִיח֤וֹן אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ עֲבֹ֣ר בִּגְבֻל֔וֹ וַיֶּאֱסֹ֤ף סִיחוֹן֙ אֶת־כָּל־עַמּ֔וֹ וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּיָ֑הְצָה וַיִּלָּ֖חֶם עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Judges 11:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.20/)

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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:357` 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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