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title: Judges 15:3 (JPS 1917) — And Samson said unto them: 'This time shall I be quits with the Phil… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Samson said unto them: 'This time shall I be quits with the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.' Who acts: Samson, I. Judges 15:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 15:3 · JPS 1917

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And Samson said unto them: 'This time shall I be quits with the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.'

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**Who acts:** Samson, I · **What happens:** say, be, do · **To what, where:** mischief, Philistines · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 15:3 · 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 (Samson, I), 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:450
# text = And Samson said unto them: 'This time shall I be quits with the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Samson	Samson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
8	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	quits	quits	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Philistines	Philistines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed 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 |  |  |  |  | unto them *= they* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  | time | with the Philistines; quits *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | I | a mischief | Philistines |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן נִקֵּ֥יתִי הַפַּ֖עַם מִפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים כִּֽי־עֹשֶׂ֥ה אֲנִ֛י עִמָּ֖ם רָעָֽה׃

[Judges 15:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.15.3/)

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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:450` 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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