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title: Judges 2:22 (JPS 1917) — that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of t… · tree and pragmatics
description: that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.' Who acts: I, judges, fathers. Judges 2:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 2:22 · JPS 1917

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that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.'

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**Who acts:** I, judges, fathers · **What happens:** prove, keep, walk · **To what, where:** Israel, way

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This is Judges 2:22 · 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 (I, judges, fathers), 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:59
# text = that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.'
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
20	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	not	not	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | may | I | Israel |  |  |  | by judges *= judge* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent israel=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | future | judges *= judge* | the way of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | judges *= judge* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | past · do-support | judges's fathers | way |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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לְמַ֛עַן נַסּ֥וֹת בָּ֖ם אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל הֲשֹׁמְרִ֣ים הֵם֩ אֶת־דֶּ֨רֶךְ יְהוָ֜ה לָלֶ֣כֶת בָּ֗ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר שָׁמְר֥וּ אֲבוֹתָ֖ם אִם־לֹֽא׃

[Judges 2:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.2.22/)

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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:59` 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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