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title: Judges 11:26 (JPS 1917) — While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its to… · tree and pragmatics
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# Judges 11:26 · JPS 1917

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While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; wherefore did ye not recover them within that time?

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**Who acts:** Israel, cities, ye · **What happens:** dwell, be, not recover · **To what, where:** Heshbon, Arnon

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This is Judges 11:26 · 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 (Israel, cities, ye), 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:364
# text = While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; wherefore did ye not recover them within that time?
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Heshbon	Heshbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Aroer	Aroer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Arnon	Arnon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	compound	_	_
33	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
37	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nsubj	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	within	within	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: request
- 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 | **dwell** | past | Israel |  |  | Heshbon and thing's towns and Aroer and thing's towns and all cities | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heshbon=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | all cities |  |  |  |  | along the side; of the Arnon | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **recover** | past · do-support | ye | Arnon |  |  | time | wherefore *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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בְּשֶׁ֣בֶת יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל בְּחֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן וּבִבְנוֹתֶ֜יהָ וּבְעַרְע֣וֹר וּבִבְנוֹתֶ֗יהָ וּבְכָל־הֶֽעָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־יְדֵ֣י אַרְנ֔וֹן שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָ֑ה וּמַדּ֥וּעַ לֹֽא־הִצַּלְתֶּ֖ם בָּעֵ֥ת הַהִֽיא׃

[Judges 11:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.26/)

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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:364` 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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