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title: Judges 15:7 (JPS 1917) — And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I wil… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.' Who acts: Samson, I. Judges 15:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 15:7 · JPS 1917

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And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.'

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**Who acts:** Samson, I · **What happens:** say, avenge, cease · **To what, where:** I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 15:7 · 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:454
# text = And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.'
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	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
8	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=warn, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Samson |  |  |  |  | unto Philistines *= philistine* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **avenge** | future · passive |  | I |  |  |  | of you; surely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cease** | future | I |  |  |  | after that |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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 אִֽם־תַּעֲשׂ֖וּן כָּזֹ֑את כִּ֛י אִם־נִקַּ֥מְתִּי בָכֶ֖ם וְאַחַ֥ר אֶחְדָּֽל׃

[Judges 15:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.15.7/)

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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:454` 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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