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title: Judges 14:14 (JPS 1917) — And they could not in three days declare the riddle. · tree and pragmatics
description: And they could not in three days declare the riddle. Who acts: garments. 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 2 of 2

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And they could not in three days declare the riddle.

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**Who acts:** garments · **What happens:** not declare · **To what, where:** riddle

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This is Judges 14:14 · 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 (garments), 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:439
# text = And they could not in three days declare the riddle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
8	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **declare** *speech: other* | could | garments *= garment* | the riddle |  |  | day |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Attribute |

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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.438/)
2. **And they could not in three days declare the riddle.**

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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:439` 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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