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title: Judges 3:20 (JPS 1917) — And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his c… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber. Who acts: Ehud, LORD. Judges 3:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 3:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber.

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**Who acts:** Ehud, LORD · **What happens:** come, sit · **To what, where:** cool upper chamber

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This is Judges 3:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Ehud, LORD), 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:81
# text = And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ehud	Ehud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come** | past | Ehud |  |  |  |  | unto LORD | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | LORD |  |  | LORD's cool upper chamber |  | by LORD; alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by himself=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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וְאֵה֣וּד ׀ בָּ֣א אֵלָ֗יו וְהֽוּא־יֹ֠שֵׁב בַּעֲלִיַּ֨ת הַמְּקֵרָ֤ה אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ֙ לְבַדּ֔וֹ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵה֔וּד דְּבַר־אֱלֹהִ֥ים לִ֖י אֵלֶ֑יךָ וַיָּ֖קָם מֵעַ֥ל הַכִּסֵּֽא׃

[Judges 3:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber.**
2. [And Ehud said: 'I have a message from God unto thee.' And he arose out of his seat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.82/)

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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:81` 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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