--- title: Judges 13:7 (JPS 1917) — but he said unto me: Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; an… · tree and pragmatics description: but he said unto me: Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb to the day of his death.' Who acts: man, thou, 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 (man, thou, 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:404 # text = but he said unto me: Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb to the day of his death.' 1 but but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 10 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 conceive conceive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 25 cc _ _ 24 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 30 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 31 unclean unclean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Nazirite Nazirite NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 41 unto unto ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 womb womb NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 53 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | | | | | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **conceive** | shall | thou | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bear** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | a son | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 4 | **drink** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | no wine nor strong drink | | | now | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | | 5 | **not** **eat** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | any unclean thing | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | shall | the child | a Nazirite | | the womb | day | unto God | tree rules | | 7 | **die** | | man | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לִ֔י הִנָּ֥ךְ הָרָ֖ה וְיֹלַ֣דְתְּ בֵּ֑ן וְעַתָּ֞ה אַל־תִּשְׁתִּ֣י ׀ יַ֣יִן וְשֵׁכָ֗ר וְאַל־תֹּֽאכְלִי֙ כָּל־טֻמְאָ֔ה כִּֽי־נְזִ֤יר אֱלֹהִים֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה הַנַּ֔עַר מִן־הַבֶּ֖טֶן עַד־י֥וֹם מוֹתֽוֹ׃פ [Judges 13:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:404` 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 13:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.403/) - next →: [Judges 13:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.405/) - ↑ back to [Judges 13:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.7/)