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title: Judges 20:25 (JPS 1917) — And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. Who acts: Benjamin, these. Judges 20:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 20:25 · JPS 1917

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And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

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**Who acts:** Benjamin, these · **What happens:** go, destroy down, draw · **To what, where:** Gibeah, thousand men, sword

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This is Judges 20:25 · 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 (Benjamin, 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:604
# text = And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Gibeah	Gibeah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
26	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
27	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
31	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
32	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **go** | past | Benjamin |  |  | Gibeah | day | against children *= child*; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out gibeah=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **destroy down** | past | Benjamin *not said here* | thousand men |  |  | again | to the ground of the children of Israel; down *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **draw** | past | these | the sword |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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וַיֵּצֵא֩ בִנְיָמִ֨ן ׀ לִקְרָאתָ֥ם ׀ מִֽן־הַגִּבְעָה֮ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשֵּׁנִי֒ וַיַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩ בִבְנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל ע֗וֹד שְׁמֹנַ֨ת עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ אָ֑רְצָה כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה שֹׁ֥לְפֵי חָֽרֶב׃

[Judges 20:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.25/)

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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:604` 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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