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title: Judges 12:7 (JPS 1917) — And Jephthah judged Israel six years. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Who acts: Jephthah. Judges 12:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 12:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Jephthah judged Israel six years.

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**Who acts:** Jephthah · **What happens:** judge · **To what, where:** Israel

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This is Judges 12:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Jephthah), 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:387
# text = And Jephthah judged Israel six years.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jephthah	Jephthah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **judge** | past | Jephthah | Israel |  |  | year |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent israel=Value |

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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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וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט יִפְתָּ֛ח אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שֵׁ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֑ים וַיָּ֗מָת יִפְתָּח֙ הַגִּלְעָדִ֔י וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר בְּעָרֵ֥י גִלְעָֽד׃פ

[Judges 12:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Jephthah judged Israel six years.**
2. [Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.388/)

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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:387` 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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