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title: Judges 18:17 (JPS 1917) — And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war. Who acts: five men, priest. Judges 18:17 
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# Judges 18:17 · JPS 1917

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And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

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**Who acts:** five men, priest · **What happens:** go, spy out, go up, come in, take, stand · **To what, where:** land, graven image, hundred men

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This is Judges 18:17 · 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 (five men, priest), 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:533
# text = And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	spy	spy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	graven	graven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ephod	ephod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	teraphim	teraphim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
54	girt	girt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	acl	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **go** | past | the five men |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spy out** | to-infinitive | the five men *not said here* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go up** | past | the five men |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **come in** | past | the five men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past | the five men *not said here* | the graven image and the ephod and the teraphim and the molten image |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Theme |
| 6 | **stand** | past | the priest |  |  |  |  | by the entrance of the gate; with the hundred men | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by entrance=Location |
| 7 | **girt** | participle |  | the hundred men *not said here* |  |  |  | with weapons of war | tree rules |

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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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וַֽיַּעֲל֞וּ חֲמֵ֣שֶׁת הָאֲנָשִׁ֗ים הַהֹלְכִים֮ לְרַגֵּ֣ל אֶת־הָאָרֶץ֒ בָּ֣אוּ שָׁ֔מָּה לָקְח֗וּ אֶת־הַפֶּ֙סֶל֙ וְאֶת־הָ֣אֵפ֔וֹד וְאֶת־הַתְּרָפִ֖ים וְאֶת־הַמַּסֵּכָ֑ה וְהַכֹּהֵ֗ן נִצָּב֙ פֶּ֣תַח הַשַּׁ֔עַר וְשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֣וֹת הָאִ֔ישׁ הֶחָג֖וּר כְּלֵ֥י הַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

[Judges 18:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.17/)

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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:533` of Mova's parse database.

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