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title: Judges 17:13 (JPS 1917) — Then said Micah: 'Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Micah: 'Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.' Who acts: Micah, I, LORD. Judges 17:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 17:13 · JPS 1917

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Then said Micah: 'Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.'

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**Who acts:** Micah, I, LORD · **What happens:** say, know, do, see, have · **To what, where:** good, me, Levite · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 17:13 · 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, I, LORD), 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:516
# text = Then said Micah: 'Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Micah	Micah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Levite	Levite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Micah |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | future | the LORD | good | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | present | I | a Levite |  |  |  | as my priest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent levite=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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מִיכָ֔ה עַתָּ֣ה יָדַ֔עְתִּי כִּֽי־יֵיטִ֥יב יְהוָ֖ה לִ֑י כִּ֧י הָיָה־לִ֛י הַלֵּוִ֖י לְכֹהֵֽן׃

[Judges 17:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.17.13/)

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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:516` 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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