--- title: Judges 14:18 (JPS 1917) — And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the… · tree and pragmatics description: And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? Who acts: men, sun. Judges 14:18 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.443/) [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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/14/) / [14:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.18/) / JPS 1 # Judges 14:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? **Who acts:** men, sun · **What happens:** say, go down, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Judges 14:18 · 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 (men, sun), 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:443 # text = And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 before before SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 18 down down ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 sweeter sweet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 parataxis _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 conj _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the men of the city | | | | day | unto Samson | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go down** | past | the sun | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | than honey; sweet *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | than a lion; strong *property* | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ לוֹ֩ אַנְשֵׁ֨י הָעִ֜יר בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י בְּטֶ֙רֶם֙ יָבֹ֣א הַחַ֔רְסָה מַה־מָּת֣וֹק מִדְּבַ֔שׁ וּמֶ֥ה עַ֖ז מֵאֲרִ֑י וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֔ם לוּלֵא֙ חֲרַשְׁתֶּ֣ם בְּעֶגְלָתִ֔י לֹ֥א מְצָאתֶ֖ם חִידָתִֽי׃ [Judges 14:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.18/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?** 2. [And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.444/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:443` 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 14:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.442/) - next →: [Judges 14:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.444/) - ↑ back to [Judges 14:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.18/)