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title: Judges 16:12 (JPS 1917) — So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. Who acts: Delilah, Philistines, liers. Judges 16:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 16:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber.

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**Who acts:** Delilah, Philistines, liers · **What happens:** take, bound, say, be, abide · **To what, where:** new ropes, man, inner chamber · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 16:12 · 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 (Delilah, Philistines, 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:481
# text = So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Delilah	Delilah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bound	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	ccomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Samson	Samson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	vocative	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	liers	lier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	abiding	abide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Delilah | new ropes |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 2 | **bound** | past | Delilah *not said here* | man |  |  |  | therewith *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location he=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Delilah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the Philistines |  |  |  |  | upon thee; Samson *vocative* | tree rules |
| 5 | **abide** | past · progressive | the liers in wait |  |  | 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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וַתִּקַּ֣ח דְּלִילָה֩ עֲבֹתִ֨ים חֲדָשִׁ֜ים וַתַּאַסְרֵ֣הוּ בָהֶ֗ם וַתֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ פְּלִשְׁתִּ֤ים עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן וְהָאֹרֵ֖ב יֹשֵׁ֣ב בֶּחָ֑דֶר וַֽיְנַתְּקֵ֛ם מֵעַ֥ל זְרֹעֹתָ֖יו כַּחֽוּט׃

[Judges 16:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber.**
2. [And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.482/)

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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:481` 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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