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title: Judges 13:8 (JPS 1917) — Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said: 'Oh, LORD, I pray Thee, le… · tree and pragmatics
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# Judges 13:8 · JPS 1917

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Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said: 'Oh, LORD, I pray Thee, let the man of God whom Thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.'

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**Who acts:** Manoah, I, Thou, man, we · **What happens:** entreat, say, pray, let, send, come · **To what, where:** LORD, Thee, man, us, child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 13:8 · 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 (Manoah, I, Thou, man), 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:405
# text = Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said: 'Oh, LORD, I pray Thee, let the man of God whom Thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Manoah	Manoah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
11	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
17	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
26	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
35	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	39	obj	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	shall	shall	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
40	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	shall	shall	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl:relcl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entreat** | past | Manoah |  | the LORD |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Manoah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pray** | present | I | Thee |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the man of God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **send** | past · do-support | Thou | the man of God |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | infinitive | the man of God *not said here* |  |  |  | again | unto us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **do** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | unto the child | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 9 | **bear** | shall · passive |  | the child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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וַיֶּעְתַּ֥ר מָנ֛וֹחַ אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה וַיֹּאמַ֑ר בִּ֣י אֲדוֹנָ֔י אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֞ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁלַ֗חְתָּ יָבוֹא־נָ֥א עוֹד֙ אֵלֵ֔ינוּ וְיוֹרֵ֕נוּ מַֽה־נַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה לַנַּ֥עַר הַיּוּלָּֽד׃

[Judges 13:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.8/)

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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:405` 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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