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title: Judges 19:2 (JPS 1917) — And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from… · tree and pragmatics
description: And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem in Judah, and was there the space of four months. Who acts: concubine. Judges 19:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 19:2 · JPS 1917

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And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem in Judah, and was there the space of four months.

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**Who acts:** concubine · **What happens:** play, go away, be · **To what, where:** harlot, space

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This is Judges 19:2 · 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 (concubine), 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:551
# text = And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem in Judah, and was there the space of four months.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	concubine	concubine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	harlot	harlot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	lehem	lehem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **play** | past | Levite's concubine | the harlot |  |  |  | against Levite | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harlot=Theme |
| 2 | **go away** | past | Levite's concubine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from concubine; unto lehem's father's house to Beth lehem in Judah; away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Levite's concubine *not said here* | the space |  |  | month |  | 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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וַתִּזְנֶ֤ה עָלָיו֙ פִּֽילַגְשׁ֔וֹ וַתֵּ֤לֶךְ מֵֽאִתּוֹ֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית אָבִ֔יהָ אֶל־בֵּ֥ית לֶ֖חֶם בֵּ֥ית לֶ֖חֶם יְהוּדָ֑ה וַתְּהִי־שָׁ֕ם יָמִ֖ים אַרְבָּעָ֥ה חֳדָשִֽׁים׃

[Judges 19:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.19.2/)

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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:551` 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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