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title: Judges 20:14 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of their cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. Who acts: children. Judges 20:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 20:14 · JPS 1917

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And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of their cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** gather, go out, battle · **To what, where:** children, cities

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This is Judges 20:14 · 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 (children), 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:593
# text = And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of their cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Gibeah	Gibeah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **gather** | past | the children of Benjamin | children *= child* |  | children's cities |  | unto Gibeah; together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** | to-infinitive | the children of Benjamin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **battle** | to-infinitive | the children of Benjamin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the children of Israel | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיֵּאָסְפ֧וּ בְנֵֽי־בִנְיָמִ֛ן מִן־הֶעָרִ֖ים הַגִּבְעָ֑תָה לָצֵ֥את לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה עִם־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Judges 20:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.14/)

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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:593` 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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