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title: Judges 18:27 (JPS 1917) — And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire. Who acts: children, Micah. Judges 18:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Judges 18:27 · JPS 1917

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And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.

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**Who acts:** children, Micah · **What happens:** take, make, have, come, smite, burn · **To what, where:** that, priest, children, city

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This is Judges 18:27 · 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, Micah), 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:544
# text = And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	Micah	Micah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Laish	Laish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	burnt	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **take** | past | children *= child* | that |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect | Micah |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product |
| 3 | **have** | past | Micah | the priest |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Laish; unto a people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **smite** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | with the edge of the sword | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with edge=Instrument |
| 6 | **burn** | past | children *= child* | the city |  |  |  | with fire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent city=Patient with fire=Instrument |

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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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וְהֵ֨מָּה לָקְח֜וּ אֵ֧ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֣ה מִיכָ֗ה וְֽאֶת־הַכֹּהֵן֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיָה־לוֹ֒ וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ עַל־לַ֗יִשׁ עַל־עַם֙ שֹׁקֵ֣ט וּבֹטֵ֔חַ וַיַּכּ֥וּ אוֹתָ֖ם לְפִי־חָ֑רֶב וְאֶת־הָעִ֖יר שָׂרְפ֥וּ בָאֵֽשׁ׃

[Judges 18:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.27/)

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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:544` of Mova's parse database.

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