--- title: Judges 13:5 (JPS 1917) — For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall com… · tree and pragmatics description: For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.' Who acts: thou, razor, child. 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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 (thou, razor, child), 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:402 # text = For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.' 1 For for CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 lo lo INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nsubj _ _ 6 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 conceive conceive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 16 razor razor NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 19 upon upon ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Nazirite Nazirite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 30 unto unto ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 womb womb NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 out out ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Philistines Philistines PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 51 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **conceive** | shall | thou | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bear** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | a son | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 3 | **come** | shall | no razor | | | razor's head | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon head=Location | | 4 | **is a** | shall | the child | a Nazirite | | the womb | | unto God | tree rules | | 5 | **begin** | shall | razor | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **save** | to-infinitive | razor *not said here* | Israel | | the hand of the Philistines | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent israel=Theme | 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} כִּי֩ הִנָּ֨ךְ הָרָ֜ה וְיֹלַ֣דְתְּ בֵּ֗ן וּמוֹרָה֙ לֹא־יַעֲלֶ֣ה עַל־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ כִּֽי־נְזִ֧יר אֱלֹהִ֛ים יִהְיֶ֥ה הַנַּ֖עַר מִן־הַבָּ֑טֶן וְה֗וּא יָחֵ֛ל לְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מִיַּ֥ד פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃ [Judges 13:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:402` 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 13:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.401/) - next →: [Judges 13:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.403/) - ↑ back to [Judges 13:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.5/)