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title: Judges 4:2 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD gave them over into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD gave them over into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth-goiim. Who acts: LORD, Jabin king, captain, Sisera. Judges 4:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 4:2 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD gave them over into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth-goiim.

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**Who acts:** LORD, Jabin king, captain, Sisera · **What happens:** give over, reign, be, dwell · **To what, where:** children, hand, Hazor, Sisera, Harosheth goiim

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This is Judges 4:2 · 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 (LORD, Jabin king, captain, Sisera), 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:96
# text = And the LORD gave them over into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth-goiim.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Jabin	Jabin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Hazor	Hazor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	Sisera	Sisera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	Harosheth	Harosheth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
34	goiim	goiim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **give over** | past | the LORD | children *= child* |  | the hand of Jabin king of Canaan |  | over *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **reign** | past | Jabin king of Canaan |  |  | Hazor |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the captain of the captain of the captain's host's host | Sisera |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwell** | past | Sisera |  |  | Harosheth goiim |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in goiim=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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וַיִּמְכְּרֵ֣ם יְהוָ֗ה בְּיַד֙ יָבִ֣ין מֶֽלֶךְ־כְּנַ֔עַן אֲשֶׁ֥ר מָלַ֖ךְ בְּחָצ֑וֹר וְשַׂר־צְבָאוֹ֙ סִֽיסְרָ֔א וְה֥וּא יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בַּחֲרֹ֥שֶׁת הַגּוֹיִֽם חֲרֹ֥שֶׁת הַגּוֹיִֽם׃

[Judges 4:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.2/)

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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:96` 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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