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title: Judges 21:10 (JPS 1917) — And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiant… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying: 'Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. Who acts: congregation. Judges 21:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Judges 21:10 · JPS 1917

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And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying: 'Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

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**Who acts:** congregation · **What happens:** send, command, say, go, smite · **To what, where:** thousand men, men, inhabitants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 21:10 · 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 (congregation), 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:638
# text = And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying: 'Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	twelve	twelve	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	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	valiantest	valiant	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	smite	smite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	Jabesh	Jabesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
28	gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the congregation | thousand men of the valiantest |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **command** | past | the congregation *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the congregation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **smite** | infinitive |  | the inhabitants |  |  |  | with the edge of the sword; with the women and the little ones | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Patient with edge=Instrument |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלְחוּ־שָׁ֣ם הָעֵדָ֗ה שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ מִבְּנֵ֣י הֶחָ֑יִל וַיְצַוּ֨וּ אוֹתָ֜ם לֵאמֹ֗ר לְ֠כוּ וְהִכִּיתֶ֞ם אֶת־יוֹשְׁבֵ֨י יָבֵ֤שׁ גִּלְעָד֙ יָבֵ֤שׁ גִּלְעָד֙ לְפִי־חֶ֔רֶב וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים וְהַטָּֽף׃

[Judges 21:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.21.10/)

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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:638` of Mova's parse database.

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