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title: Judges 14:14 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth food, and out of… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. Who acts: Samson, sweetness. Judges 14:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 14:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.

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**Who acts:** Samson, sweetness · **What happens:** say, come · **To what, where:** food, eater, strong · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 14:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Samson, sweetness), 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:438
# text = And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
1	And	and	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	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Samson |  |  |  |  | unto garments *= garment* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past |  | food |  | the eater |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | sweetness |  |  | the strong |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out strong=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֗ם מֵהָֽאֹכֵל֙ יָצָ֣א מַאֲכָ֔ל וּמֵעַ֖ז יָצָ֣א מָת֑וֹק וְלֹ֥א יָכְל֛וּ לְהַגִּ֥יד הַחִידָ֖ה שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִֽים׃

[Judges 14:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.14/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.**
2. [And they could not in three days declare the riddle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.439/)

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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:438` 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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