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title: Judges 18:25 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Dan said unto him: 'Let not thy voice be heard a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the children of Dan said unto him: 'Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.' Who acts: children, angry fellows, thou. Judges 18:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 18:25 · JPS 1917

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And the children of Dan said unto him: 'Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.'

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**Who acts:** children, angry fellows, thou · **What happens:** say, not let, hear, fall, lose · **To what, where:** voice, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 18:25 · 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 (children, angry fellows, thou), 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:542
# text = And the children of Dan said unto him: 'Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Dan	Dan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- 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 | the children of Dan |  |  |  |  | unto Dan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | infinitive · passive |  | thy voice |  |  |  | among us | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fall** | present | angry fellows |  |  |  |  | upon you | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon you=Location |
| 5 | **lose** | present | thou | thy life |  |  |  | with the lives of thy household | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |

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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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וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ אֵלָיו֙ בְּנֵי־דָ֔ן אַל־תַּשְׁמַ֥ע קוֹלְךָ֖ עִמָּ֑נוּ פֶּֽן־יִפְגְּע֣וּ בָכֶ֗ם אֲנָשִׁים֙ מָ֣רֵי נֶ֔פֶשׁ וְאָסַפְתָּ֥ה נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וְנֶ֥פֶשׁ בֵּיתֶֽךָ׃

[Judges 18:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.25/)

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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:542` 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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