--- title: Judges 2:2 (JPS 1917) — and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye… · tree and pragmatics description: and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars; but ye have not hearkened unto My voice; what is this ye have done? Who acts: ye. 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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 (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:39 # text = and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars; but ye have not hearkened unto My voice; what is this ye have done? 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 altars altar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 hearkened hearken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 26 unto unto ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 obj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 33 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 34 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=wh, act=ask, indirect=0, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | shall | ye | no covenant | | | | with the inhabitants of this land | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset covenant=Product | | 2 | **break down** | shall | ye | inhabitants's altars | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Patient | | 3 | **not** **hearken** | present · perfect | ye | | | | | unto My voice | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | | this | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | present · perfect | ye | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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} וְאַתֶּ֗ם לֹֽא־תִכְרְת֤וּ בְרִית֙ לְיֽוֹשְׁבֵי֙ הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֔את מִזְבְּחוֹתֵיהֶ֖ם תִּתֹּצ֑וּן וְלֹֽא־שְׁמַעְתֶּ֥ם בְּקֹלִ֖י מַה־זֹּ֥את עֲשִׂיתֶֽם׃ [Judges 2:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.2.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:39` 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. - ← previous: [Judges 2:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.38/) - next →: [Judges 2:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.40/) - ↑ back to [Judges 2:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.2.2/)