--- title: Judges 21:22 (JPS 1917) — And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to strive… · tree and pragmatics description: And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to strive with us, that we will say unto them: Grant them graciously unto us; because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle; neither did ye give them unto them, that ye should now be guilty.' Who acts: land, fathers, we, ye. 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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 (land, fathers, we, ye), 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:650 # text = And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to strive with us, that we will say unto them: Grant them graciously unto us; because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle; neither did ye give them unto them, that ye should now be guilty.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 strive strive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 22 unto unto ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 graciously graciously ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 unto unto ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 45 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 48 cc _ _ 46 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 48 nsubj _ _ 48 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 49 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 iobj _ _ 50 unto unto ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 53 that that SCONJ IN _ 58 mark _ _ 54 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 58 nsubj _ _ 55 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 56 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 58 advmod _ _ 57 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 58 cop _ _ 58 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 ccomp _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 60 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | shall | land | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | present | vineyards's fathers or vineyards's brethren | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **strive** | to-infinitive | vineyards's fathers or vineyards's brethren *not said here* | | | | | with us | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | we | | | | | unto vineyards *= vineyard* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **grant** | infinitive | | vineyards *= vineyard* | | | | unto us; graciously *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **not** **take** | past | we | Benjamin's wife | | battle | | for each man of men | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wife=Value in battle=Location | | 7 | **give** | past · do-support | ye | | vineyards *= vineyard* | | | unto vineyards *= vineyard* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 8 | **is** | should | ye | | | | now | guilty *property* | tree rules | 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} וְהָיָ֡ה כִּֽי־יָבֹ֣אוּ אֲבוֹתָם֩ א֨וֹ אֲחֵיהֶ֜ם לָרִ֣יב ׀ אֵלֵ֗ינוּ וְאָמַ֤רְנוּ אֲלֵיהֶם֙ חָנּ֣וּנוּ אוֹתָ֔ם כִּ֣י לֹ֥א לָקַ֛חְנוּ אִ֥ישׁ אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה כִּ֣י לֹ֥א אַתֶּ֛ם נְתַתֶּ֥ם לָהֶ֖ם כָּעֵ֥ת תֶּאְשָֽׁמוּ׃ס [Judges 21:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.21.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:650` 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. - ← previous: [Judges 21:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.649/) - next →: [Judges 21:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.651/) - ↑ back to [Judges 21:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.21.22/)