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title: Judges 16:21 (JPS 1917) — And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house. Who acts: Philistines, soul. Judges 16:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 16:21 · JPS 1917

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And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

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**Who acts:** Philistines, soul · **What happens:** lay, put out, bring down, bound, grind · **To what, where:** hold, eyes, soul, Gaza, prison house

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This is Judges 16:21 · 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 (Philistines, soul), 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:491
# text = And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Philistines	Philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	bound	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fetters	fetter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	grind	grind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
39	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **lay** | past | the Philistines | hold |  |  |  | on soul | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on he=Destination |
| 2 | **put out** | past | the Philistines *not said here* | soul's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal |
| 3 | **bring down** | past | Philistines *= philistine* | soul | Gaza |  |  | down *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gaza=Destination |
| 4 | **bound** | past | Philistines *= philistine* *not said here* | soul |  |  |  | with fetters of brass | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location he=Theme |
| 5 | **grind** | past · do-support | soul |  |  | the prison house |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיֹּאחֲז֣וּהוּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַֽיְנַקְּר֖וּ אֶת־עֵינָ֑יו וַיּוֹרִ֨ידוּ אוֹת֜וֹ עַזָּ֗תָה וַיַּאַסְר֙וּהוּ֙ בַּֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֔יִם וַיְהִ֥י טוֹחֵ֖ן בְּבֵ֥ית הָאֲסוּרִֽים׃

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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:491` 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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