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title: Judges 17:5 (JPS 1917) — And the man Micah had a house of God, and he made an ephod, and tera… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the man Micah had a house of God, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. Who acts: man, sons. Judges 17:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 17:5 · JPS 1917

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And the man Micah had a house of God, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

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**Who acts:** man, sons · **What happens:** have, make, consecrate, become · **To what, where:** house, ephod, one, priest

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This is Judges 17:5 · 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 (man, sons), 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:508
# text = And the man Micah had a house of God, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Micah	Micah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ephod	ephod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	teraphim	teraphim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | the man | a house of God |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | man | a ephod and teraphim |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ephod=Product |
| 3 | **consecrate** | past | the man *not said here* | one of man's sons |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | man's sons | son's priest |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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וְהָאִ֣ישׁ מִיכָ֔ה ל֖וֹ בֵּ֣ית אֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיַּ֤עַשׂ אֵפוֹד֙ וּתְרָפִ֔ים וַיְמַלֵּ֗א אֶת־יַ֤ד אַחַד֙ מִבָּנָ֔יו וַיְהִי־ל֖וֹ לְכֹהֵֽן׃

[Judges 17:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.17.5/)

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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:508` 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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