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title: Judges 13:4 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing. Who acts: you, I. Judges 13:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 13:4 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** beware, pray, drink, not eat · **To what, where:** thee, wine, unclean thing

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This is Judges 13:4 · 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 (you, I), 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:401
# text = Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | therefore *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drink** | infinitive | you *not said here* | no wine nor strong drink |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **eat** | infinitive | you *not said here* | any unclean thing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

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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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וְעַתָּה֙ הִשָּׁ֣מְרִי נָ֔א וְאַל־תִּשְׁתִּ֖י יַ֣יִן וְשֵׁכָ֑ר וְאַל־תֹּאכְלִ֖י כָּל־טָמֵֽא׃

[Judges 13:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.4/)

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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:401` 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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