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title: Judges 16:9 (JPS 1917) — Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. · tree and pragmatics
description: Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. Who acts: strength, liers. Judges 16:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 16:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber.

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**Who acts:** strength, liers · **What happens:** have, abide · **To what, where:** liers, wait, inner chamber

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This is Judges 16:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (strength, liers), 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:476
# text = Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	liers	lier-in-wait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	abiding	abide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | strength | liers |  | wait | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lier-in-wait=Patient |
| 2 | **abide** | gerund | liers *not said here* |  |  | the inner chamber |  |  | 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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וְהָאֹרֵ֗ב יֹשֵׁ֥ב לָהּ֙ בַּחֶ֔דֶר וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥ים עָלֶ֖יךָ שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹן וַיְנַתֵּק֙ אֶת־הַיְתָרִ֔ים כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר יִנָּתֵ֤ק פְּתִֽיל־הַנְּעֹ֙רֶת֙ בַּהֲרִיח֣וֹ אֵ֔שׁ וְלֹ֥א נוֹדַ֖ע כֹּחֽוֹ׃

[Judges 16:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber.**
2. [And she said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And he broke the bowstrings as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.477/)
3. [So his strength was not known.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.478/)

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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:476` 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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