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title: Judges 20:35 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israe… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men; all these drew the sword. Who acts: LORD, children, these. Judges 20:35 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 20:35 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men; all these drew the sword.

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**Who acts:** LORD, children, these · **What happens:** smite, destroy, draw · **To what, where:** Benjamin, thousand men, sword

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This is Judges 20:35 · 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 (LORD, children, 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:614
# text = And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men; all these drew the sword.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
29	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
30	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **smite** | past | the LORD | Benjamin |  |  | before Israel |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus benjamin=Experiencer |
| 2 | **destroy** | past | the children of Israel | thousand men |  |  | day | of Benjamin | 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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וַיִּגֹּ֨ף יְהוָ֥ה ׀ אֶֽת־בִּנְיָמִן֮ לִפְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ וַיַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩ בְנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל בְּבִנְיָמִן֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֥ה אֶ֛לֶף וּמֵאָ֖ה אִ֑ישׁ כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה שֹׁ֥לֵף חָֽרֶב׃

[Judges 20:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.35/)

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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:614` 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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