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title: Judges 20:44 (JPS 1917) — And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men… · tree and pragmatics
description: And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour. Who acts: thousand men, these. Judges 20:44 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 20:44 · JPS 1917

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And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

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**Who acts:** thousand men, these · **What happens:** fall, be · **To what, where:** men

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This is Judges 20:44 · 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 (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:624
# text = And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
11	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **fall** | past | thousand men |  |  | there |  | of Benjamin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of benjamin=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | these | men |  |  |  | of valour | 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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וַֽיִּפְּלוּ֙ מִבִּנְיָמִ֔ן שְׁמֹנָֽה־עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֖לֶף אִ֑ישׁ אֶת־כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה אַנְשֵׁי־חָֽיִל׃

[Judges 20:44: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.44/)

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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:624` 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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