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title: Judges 19:6 (JPS 1917) — So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together; and… · tree and pragmatics
description: So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together; and the damsel's father said unto the man: 'Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry.' Who acts: servant, father, I, heart. Judges 19:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Judges 19:6 · JPS 1917

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So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together; and the damsel's father said unto the man: 'Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry.'

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**Who acts:** servant, father, I, heart · **What happens:** sit down, eat, drink, say, be, pray · **To what, where:** both, thee, heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 19:6 · 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 (servant, father, I, heart), 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:555
# text = So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together; and the damsel's father said unto the man: 'Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry.'
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
33	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	tarry	tarry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
42	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
45	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | past · do-support | servant *not said here* | both |  |  |  | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** | infinitive | servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the damsel's father |  |  |  |  | unto the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **tarry** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **let** | infinitive |  | thy heart |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | infinitive | thy heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | 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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וַיֵּשְׁב֗וּ וַיֹּאכְל֧וּ שְׁנֵיהֶ֛ם יַחְדָּ֖ו וַיִּשְׁתּ֑וּ וַיֹּ֜אמֶר אֲבִ֤י הַֽנַּעֲרָה֙ אֶל־הָאִ֔ישׁ הֽוֹאֶל־נָ֥א וְלִ֖ין וְיִטַ֥ב לִבֶּֽךָ׃

[Judges 19:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.19.6/)

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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:555` 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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