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title: Judges 20:17 (JPS 1917) — And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, numbered four hundred thousa… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these were men of war. Who acts: men, thousand men, these. Judges 20:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 20:17 · JPS 1917

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And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these were men of war.

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**Who acts:** men, thousand men, these · **What happens:** number, draw, be · **To what, where:** thousand men, sword, men

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This is Judges 20:17 · 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 (men, thousand men, these), 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:596
# text = And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these were men of war.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	numbered	number	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **number** | past | the men of Israel beside Benjamin | thousand men |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | thousand men | sword |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | these | men |  |  |  | of war | tree rules |

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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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וְאִ֨ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל הִתְפָּֽקְד֗וּ לְבַד֙ מִבִּנְיָמִ֔ן אַרְבַּ֨ע מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ שֹׁ֣לֵֽף חָ֑רֶב כָּל־זֶ֖ה אִ֥ישׁ מִלְחָמָֽה׃

[Judges 20:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.17/)

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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:596` 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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