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title: Judges 20:9 (JPS 1917) — But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up… · tree and pragmatics
description: But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot; Who acts: this, we. Judges 20:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 20:9 · JPS 1917

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But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;

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**Who acts:** this, we · **What happens:** be, do, go up · **To what, where:** thing, Gibeah

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This is Judges 20:9 · 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 (this, we), 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:588
# text = But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Gibeah	Gibeah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | the thing |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | future | we | the thing | Gibeah |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go up** | future | we |  |  |  |  | against thing; by lot | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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וְעַתָּ֕ה זֶ֣ה הַדָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר נַעֲשֶׂ֖ה לַגִּבְעָ֑ה עָלֶ֖יהָ בְּגוֹרָֽל׃

[Judges 20:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.9/)

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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:588` 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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