--- title: Judges 16:6 (JPS 1917) — And Delilah said to Samson: 'Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great… · tree and pragmatics description: And Delilah said to Samson: 'Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.' Who acts: Delilah, I, great strength, thou. 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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 (Delilah, I, great strength, thou), 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:473 # text = And Delilah said to Samson: 'Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Delilah Delilah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Samson Samson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 16 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 lieth lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 wherewith wherewith ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 23 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 24 mightest might AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 bound bound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 afflict afflict VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Delilah | | Samson | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to samson=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lie** | present | thy great strength | | | | | wherein *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | might | thou | | | | | bound, wherewith *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **afflict** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | thee | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer | 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} וַתֹּ֤אמֶר דְּלִילָה֙ אֶל־שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן הַגִּֽידָה־נָּ֣א לִ֔י בַּמֶּ֖ה כֹּחֲךָ֣ גָד֑וֹל וּבַמֶּ֥ה תֵאָסֵ֖ר לְעַנּוֹתֶֽךָ׃ [Judges 16:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:473` 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 16:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.472/) - next →: [Judges 16:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.474/) - ↑ back to [Judges 16:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.6/)