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# Judges 16:17 · JPS 1917

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And he told her all his heart, and said unto her: 'There hath not come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite unto God from my mother's womb; if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.'

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**Who acts:** soul, I, strength · **What happens:** tell, say, not come, be, shaven, go · **To what, where:** heart, Delilah, razor, Nazirite, womb, I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 16:17 · 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 (soul, I, strength), 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:487
# text = And he told her all his heart, and said unto her: 'There hath not come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite unto God from my mother's womb; if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
16	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	razor	razor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Nazirite	nazirite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	_
31	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	shaven	shaven	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	advcl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
45	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
56	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	xcomp	_	_
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
59	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	cop	_	_
60	like	like	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	63	det	_	_
62	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
65	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | soul | soul's heart | Delilah |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient heart=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | soul *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Delilah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **come** | present · perfect |  | a razor |  | there |  | upon my head | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location razor=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present · perfect | I | a Nazirite |  | my mother's womb |  | unto God | tree rules |
| 5 | **shaven** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | future | my strength |  |  |  | then | from me | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **become** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like any other man | 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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וַיַּגֶּד־לָ֣הּ אֶת־כָּל־לִבּ֗וֹ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהּ֙ מוֹרָה֙ לֹֽא־עָלָ֣ה עַל־רֹאשִׁ֔י כִּֽי־נְזִ֧יר אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֲנִ֖י מִבֶּ֣טֶן אִמִּ֑י אִם־גֻּלַּ֙חְתִּי֙ וְסָ֣ר מִמֶּ֣נִּי כֹחִ֔י וְחָלִ֥יתִי וְהָיִ֖יתִי כְּכָל־הָאָדָֽם׃

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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:487` 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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