Joshua 6:8 · JPS 1917
And it was so, that when Joshua had spoken unto the people, the seven priests bearing the seven rams' horns before the LORD passed on, and blew with the horns; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
Who acts: Joshua, seven priests, ark, LORD · What happens: be, speak, bear, pass on, blow, follow · To what, where: horns, priests · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Joshua 6:8 · 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 (Joshua, seven priests, ark, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 so | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 so | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 so | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 passed | mark |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 spoken | mark |
| 8 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spoken | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spoken | aux |
| 10 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 passed | advcl |
| 11 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spoken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoken | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priests | det |
| 16 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 priests | nummod |
| 17 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 passed | nsubj |
| 18 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 priests | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rams | det |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 rams | nummod |
| 21 | rams | ram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 horns | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 rams | case |
| 23 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bearing | obj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 LORD | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 LORD | det |
| 26 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bearing | obl |
| 27 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 so | csubj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 passed | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 blew | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 blew | cc |
| 31 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 passed | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 horns | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 horns | det |
| 34 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 blew | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 followed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 followed | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ark | det |
| 38 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 followed | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 covenant | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 covenant | det |
| 41 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ark | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 LORD | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 LORD | det |
| 44 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 covenant | nmod |
| 45 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 passed | conj |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 followed | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | so property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | Joshua | unto the people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | the seven priests not said here | the seven rams's horns | before the LORD | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | |||
| 4 | pass on | past | the seven priests | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | blow | past | the seven priests not said here | with the horns | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with horn=Theme | ||||
| 6 | follow | past | the ark of the covenant of the LORD | priests = priest | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | covenant | the LORD | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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
וַיְהִ֗י כֶּאֱמֹ֣ר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ֮ אֶל־הָעָם֒ וְשִׁבְעָ֣ה הַכֹּהֲנִ֡ים נֹשְׂאִים֩ שִׁבְעָ֨ה שׁוֹפְר֤וֹת הַיּֽוֹבְלִים֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה עָבְר֕וּ וְתָקְע֖וּ בַּשּֽׁוֹפָר֑וֹת וַֽאֲרוֹן֙ בְּרִ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה הֹלֵ֖ךְ אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃
Joshua 6:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOS:107 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.107/