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title: Judges 4:4 (JPS 1917) — Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time. Who acts: Lappidoth. Judges 4:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 4:4 · JPS 1917

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Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

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**Who acts:** Lappidoth · **What happens:** judge · **To what, where:** Israel

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This is Judges 4:4 · 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 (Lappidoth), 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:98
# text = Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
2	Deborah	Deborah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	dislocated	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prophetess	prophetess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Lappidoth	Lappidoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **judge** | past | Lappidoth | Israel |  |  | now; time | Deborah *dislocated* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent israel=Value |

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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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וּדְבוֹרָה֙ אִשָּׁ֣ה נְבִיאָ֔ה אֵ֖שֶׁת לַפִּיד֑וֹת הִ֛יא שֹׁפְטָ֥ה אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בָּעֵ֥ת הַהִֽיא׃

[Judges 4:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.4/)

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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:98` 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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