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title: Judges 14:3 (JPS 1917) — Then his father and his mother said unto him: 'Is there never a woma… · tree and pragmatics
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# Judges 14:3 · JPS 1917

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Then his father and his mother said unto him: 'Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?' And Samson said unto his father: 'Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.'

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**Who acts:** father, thou, Samson, woman · **What happens:** say, not be, go, take, get, please · **To what, where:** woman, wife, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 14:3 · 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 (father, thou, Samson, woman), 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:426
# text = Then his father and his mother said unto him: 'Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?' And Samson said unto his father: 'Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
32	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	uncircumcised	uncircumcised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
43	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	Samson	Samson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
46	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
50	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	_
51	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	45	ccomp	_	_
52	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	_
55	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
56	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	pleaseth	please	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
59	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	58	advmod	_	_
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
62	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, act=request, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Samson's father and Samson's mother |  |  |  | then | unto Samson | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present |  | a woman |  | there |  | among the daughters of thy brethren or my people | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present | thou | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  | a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Samson |  |  |  |  | unto Samson's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **get** | infinitive |  | wife |  |  |  | for me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for i=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **please** | present | woman | me |  |  |  | well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |

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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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר ל֜וֹ אָבִ֣יו וְאִמּ֗וֹ הַאֵין֩ בִּבְנ֨וֹת אַחֶ֤יךָ וּבְכָל־עַמִּי֙ אִשָּׁ֔ה כִּֽי־אַתָּ֤ה הוֹלֵךְ֙ לָקַ֣חַת אִשָּׁ֔ה מִפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים הָעֲרֵלִ֑ים וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹן אֶל־אָבִיו֙ אוֹתָ֣הּ קַֽח־לִ֔י כִּֽי־הִ֖יא יָשְׁרָ֥ה בְעֵינָֽי׃

[Judges 14:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.3/)

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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:426` 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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