--- title: Judges 20:6 (JPS 1917) — And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her through… · tree and pragmatics description: And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and wantonness in Israel. Who acts: I, pieces. 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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 (I, pieces), 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:585 # text = And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and wantonness in Israel. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 concubine concubine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 throughout throughout ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 committed commit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 30 lewdness lewdness NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 wantonness wantonness NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | I | my concubine | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concubine=Theme | | 2 | **cut** | past | I *not said here* | Gibeah | | pieces | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | | 3 | **send** | past | I *not said here* | Gibeah | | | throughout all country of the inheritance of Israel | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **commit** | present · perfect | pieces *= piece* | lewdness and wantonness | | Israel | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lewdness=Theme in israel=Destination | | 5 | **inherit** | | | Israel | | | | | nom inheritance «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} וָֽאֹחֵ֤ז בְּפִֽילַגְשִׁי֙ וָֽאֲנַתְּחֶ֔הָ וָֽאֲשַׁלְּחֶ֔הָ בְּכָל־שְׂדֵ֖ה נַחֲלַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּ֥י עָשׂ֛וּ זִמָּ֥ה וּנְבָלָ֖ה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ [Judges 20:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:585` 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. - ← previous: [Judges 20:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.584/) - next →: [Judges 20:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.586/) - ↑ back to [Judges 20:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.6/)