--- title: Judges 13:21 (JPS 1917) — Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. · tree and pragmatics description: Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. Who acts: Manoah, LORD. Judges 13:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.419/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Judges](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/) / [chapter 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/13/) / [13:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.21/) / JPS 2 # Judges 13:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. **Who acts:** Manoah, LORD · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** angel · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Judges 13:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, LORD), 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:419 # text = Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Manoah Manoah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 angel angel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | Manoah | | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | past | LORD | the angel | | | | of the LORD | tree rules | 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} וְלֹא־יָ֤סַף עוֹד֙ מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֔ה לְהֵרָאֹ֖ה אֶל־מָנ֣וֹחַ וְאֶל־אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ אָ֚ז יָדַ֣ע מָנ֔וֹחַ כִּֽי־מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָ֖ה הֽוּא׃ [Judges 13:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.21/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.418/) 2. **Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:419` 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 13:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.418/) - next →: [Judges 13:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.420/) - ↑ back to [Judges 13:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.21/)