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title: Judges 21:11 (JPS 1917) — And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy eve… · tree and pragmatics
description: And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.' Who acts: this, ye, woman. Judges 21:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 21:11 · JPS 1917

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And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.'

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**Who acts:** this, ye, woman · **What happens:** be, do, destroy, lie · **To what, where:** thing, male

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This is Judges 21:11 · 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 (this, ye, woman), 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:639
# text = And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | the thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | shall | ye | the thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **destroy** | shall | ye | every male and every woman |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent male=Patient |
| 4 | **lie** | present · perfect | every woman |  |  |  |  | by man | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by man=Location |

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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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וְזֶ֥ה הַדָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ כָּל־זָכָ֗ר וְכָל־אִשָּׁ֛ה יֹדַ֥עַת מִשְׁכַּב־זָכָ֖ר תַּחֲרִֽימוּ׃

[Judges 21:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.21.11/)

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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:639` 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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