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title: Judges 20:16 (JPS 1917) — All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; ev… · tree and pragmatics
description: All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss. Who acts: people, one. Judges 20:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 20:16 · JPS 1917

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All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

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**Who acts:** people, one · **What happens:** choose, be, sling, not miss · **To what, where:** stones, hair breadth

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This is Judges 20:16 · 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 (people, one), 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:595
# text = All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
8	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	left	left	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	handed	handed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	sling	sling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
20	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | all people |  |  |  |  | handed, left *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sling** | could | every one | stones |  | a hair breadth |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at breadth=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **miss** | infinitive | every one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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מִכֹּ֣ל ׀ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֗ה שְׁבַ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ אִ֣ישׁ בָּח֔וּר אִטֵּ֖ר יַד־יְמִינ֑וֹ כָּל־זֶ֗ה קֹלֵ֧עַ בָּאֶ֛בֶן אֶל־הַֽשַּׂעֲרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א יַחֲטִֽא׃פ

[Judges 20:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.16/)

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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:595` 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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