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title: Judges 17:8 (JPS 1917) — And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem in Judah, to… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem in Judah, to sojourn where he could find a place; and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. Who acts: man. Judges 17:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 17:8 · JPS 1917

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And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem in Judah, to sojourn where he could find a place; and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** depart, sojourn, find, come, journey · **To what, where:** city, place, hill country

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This is Judges 17:8 · 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), 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:511
# text = And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem in Judah, to sojourn where he could find a place; and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lehem	lehem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sojourn	sojourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
34	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Micah	Micah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
46	.	.	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 | **depart** | past | the man |  |  | the city |  | out Beth lehem in Judah | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out city=Initial\_Location out lehem=Destination |
| 2 | **sojourn** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | could | man | a place |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | past | man |  |  | the hill country of Ephraim |  | to the house of Micah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location to house=Destination |
| 5 | **journey** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ הָאִ֜ישׁ מֵהָעִ֗יר מִבֵּ֥ית לֶ֙חֶם֙ בֵּ֥ית לֶ֙חֶם֙ יְהוּדָ֔ה לָג֖וּר בַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר יִמְצָ֑א וַיָּבֹ֧א הַר־אֶפְרַ֛יִם עַד־בֵּ֥ית מִיכָ֖ה לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת דַּרְכּֽוֹ׃

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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:511` 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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