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title: Judges 12:11 (JPS 1917) — And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israe… · tree and pragmatics
description: And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. Who acts: Elon, Ibzan. Judges 12:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 12:11 · JPS 1917

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And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

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

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This is Judges 12:11 · 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 (Elon, Ibzan), 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:393
# text = And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
4	Elon	Elon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Zebulunite	Zebulunite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **judge** | past | Elon | Israel |  |  | after Ibzan |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent israel=Value |
| 2 | **judge** | past | Ibzan | 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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וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֤ט אַֽחֲרָיו֙ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֵיל֖וֹן הַזְּבֽוּלֹנִ֑י וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עֶ֥שֶׂר שָׁנִֽים׃

[Judges 12:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.11/)

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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:393` 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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