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title: Judges 14:13 (JPS 1917) — but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty linen g… · tree and pragmatics
description: but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment.' And they said unto him: 'Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.' Who acts: ye, garments, we, raiment. Judges 14:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 14:13 · JPS 1917

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but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment.' And they said unto him: 'Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.'

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**Who acts:** ye, garments, we, raiment, thy · **What happens:** not declare, give, say, put forth, hear, change · **To what, where:** feast, me, thirty linen garments, riddle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 14:13 · 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 (ye, garments, we, raiment), 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:437
# text = but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment.' And they said unto him: 'Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.'
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
33	forth	forth	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **declare** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | can | ye | feast | me |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme it=Attribute |
| 2 | **give** | shall | ye | thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment | me |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient garment=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | garments *= garment* |  |  |  |  | unto Samson | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **put forth** | infinitive |  | thy riddle |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent riddle=Goal |
| 5 | **hear** | may | we | feast |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **change** |  | raiment |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **riddle** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְאִם־לֹ֣א תוּכְלוּ֮ לְהַגִּ֣יד לִי֒ וּנְתַתֶּ֨ם אַתֶּ֥ם לִי֙ שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים סְדִינִ֔ים וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים חֲלִיפ֣וֹת בְּגָדִ֑ים וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ ל֔וֹ ח֥וּדָה חִידָתְךָ֖ וְנִשְׁמָעֶֽנָּה׃

[Judges 14:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.13/)

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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:437` of Mova's parse database.

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