--- title: Judges 17:9 (JPS 1917) — And Micah said unto him: 'Whence comest thou?' And he said unto him:… · tree and pragmatics description: And Micah said unto him: 'Whence comest thou?' And he said unto him: 'I am a Levite of Beth-lehem in Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.' Who acts: Micah, thou, man, I. 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And he said unto him: 'I am a Levite of Beth-lehem in Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.' **Who acts:** Micah, thou, man, I · **What happens:** say, come, be, go, sojourn, find · **To what, where:** Levite, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Judges 17:9 · 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 (Micah, thou, man, I), 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:512 # text = And Micah said unto him: 'Whence comest thou?' And he said unto him: 'I am a Levite of Beth-lehem in Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Micah Micah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 9 comest come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 10 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 13 And and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 unto unto ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Levite Levite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 Beth Beth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 27 lehem lehem NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 sojourn sojourn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=0, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Micah | | | | | unto man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** | present | thou | | | | | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | | | | | unto Micah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | I | a Levite | | | | of Beth lehem in Judah | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | present | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **sojourn** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **find** | may | I | a place | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | 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} וַיֹּאמֶר־ל֥וֹ מִיכָ֖ה מֵאַ֣יִן תָּב֑וֹא וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלָ֜יו לֵוִ֣י אָנֹ֗כִי מִבֵּ֥ית לֶ֙חֶם֙ בֵּ֥ית לֶ֙חֶם֙ יְהוּדָ֔ה וְאָנֹכִ֣י הֹלֵ֔ךְ לָג֖וּר בַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר אֶמְצָֽא׃ [Judges 17:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.17.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:512` 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. - ← previous: [Judges 17:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.511/) - next →: [Judges 17:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.513/) - ↑ back to [Judges 17:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.17.9/)