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title: Judges 21:17 (JPS 1917) — And they said: 'They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they said: 'They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel. Who acts: women. Judges 21:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 21:17 · JPS 1917

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And they said: 'They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** say, escape, be, not blot out · **To what, where:** tribe, Israel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 21:17 · 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 (women), 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:645
# text = And they said: 'They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
6	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	blotted	blot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **escape** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | must | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | as a inheritance; for Benjamin | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **blot out** | infinitive · passive |  | a tribe |  | Israel |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ יְרֻשַּׁ֥ת פְּלֵיטָ֖ה לְבִנְיָמִ֑ן וְלֹֽא־יִמָּחֶ֥ה שֵׁ֖בֶט מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Judges 21:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.21.17/)

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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:645` 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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