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title: Judges 21:12 (JPS 1917) — And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred y… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. Who acts: men, hundred young virgins, Shiloh. Judges 21:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree a
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# Judges 21:12 · JPS 1917

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And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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**Who acts:** men, hundred young virgins, Shiloh · **What happens:** find, not know, lie, bring, be · **To what, where:** hundred young virgins, man, virgins, Shiloh, land

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This is Judges 21:12 · 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 (men, hundred young virgins, Shiloh), 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:640
# text = And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Jabesh	Jabesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	gilead	gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	virgins	virgin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	advcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Shiloh	Shiloh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	acl:relcl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **find** | past | men *= man* | hundred young virgins |  |  |  | among the inhabitants | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virgin=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past · perfect | hundred young virgins | man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | hundred young virgins *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with gilead | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | past | men *= man* | virgins *= virgin* | Shiloh |  |  | unto the camp | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to shiloh=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | present | Shiloh |  |  | the land |  | of Canaan | 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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וַֽיִּמְצְא֞וּ מִיּוֹשְׁבֵ֣י ׀ יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֗ד יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֗ד אַרְבַּ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ נַעֲרָ֣ה בְתוּלָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יָדְעָ֛ה אִ֖ישׁ לְמִשְׁכַּ֣ב זָכָ֑ר וַיָּבִ֨יאוּ אוֹתָ֤ם אֶל־הַֽמַּחֲנֶה֙ שִׁלֹ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃ס

[Judges 21:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.21.12/)

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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:640` of Mova's parse database.

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