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title: Judges 3:2 (JPS 1917) — only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to t… · tree and pragmatics
description: only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof; Who acts: generations. Judges 3:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 3:2 · JPS 1917

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only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof;

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**Who acts:** generations · **What happens:** know, teach · **To what, where:** war, generations, least, nothing

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This is Judges 3:2 · 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 (generations), 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:62
# text = only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof;
1	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obl	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	beforetime	beforetime	ADV	RB	_	24	obl	_	_
24	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	obj	_	_
26	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | might | the generations of the children of Israel |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the generations of the children of Israel *not said here* | war | generations *= generation* | the least |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient war=Topic |
| 3 | **know** | past |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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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רַ֗ק לְמַ֙עַן֙ דַּ֚עַת דֹּר֣וֹת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְלַמְּדָ֖ם מִלְחָמָ֑ה רַ֥ק אֲשֶׁר־לְפָנִ֖ים לֹ֥א יְדָעֽוּם׃

[Judges 3:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.2/)

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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:62` 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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