Joshua 7:5 · JPS 1917

And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men; and they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

Who acts: men, hearts · What happens: smote, chase, melt, become · To what, where: thirty men, people, gate, men, descent

This is Joshua 7:5 · 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 (men, hearts), 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	_	6 smote	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smote	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Ai	case
5	Ai	Ai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 men	nmod
6	smote	smote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smote	obl
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 thirty	advmod
10	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 men	nummod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 six	cc
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 thirty	conj
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smote	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 chased	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 chased	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chased	nsubj
17	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smote	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chased	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 gate	case
20	before	before	ADP	_	22 gate	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gate	det
22	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chased	obl
23	even	even	ADV	_	25 Shebarim	advmod
24	unto	unto	ADP	_	25 Shebarim	case
25	Shebarim	Shebarim	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 chased	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 smote	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 smote	cc
28	smote	smote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 chased	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 smote	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 descent	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 descent	det
32	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smote	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 melted	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 melted	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hearts	det
36	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 melted	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 people	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 people	det
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 hearts	nmod
40	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smote	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 became	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 became	cc
43	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 melted	conj
44	as	as	ADP	_	45 water	case
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 became	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 smote	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smote	past	the men of Ai	thirty men		of people	tree rules
2	chase	past	men = man	people	the gate	unto Shebarim	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from gate=Trajectory
3	smote	past	men = man not said here	men = man	the descent		tree rules
4	melt	past	the hearts of the people				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	become	past	the hearts of the people not said here			as water	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

וַיַּכּ֨וּ מֵהֶ֜ם אַנְשֵׁ֣י הָעַ֗י כִּשְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים וְשִׁשָּׁה֙ אִ֔ישׁ וַֽיִּרְדְּפ֞וּם לִפְנֵ֤י הַשַּׁ֙עַר֙ עַד־הַשְּׁבָרִ֔ים וַיַּכּ֖וּם בַּמּוֹרָ֑ד וַיִּמַּ֥ס לְבַב־הָעָ֖ם וַיְהִ֥י לְמָֽיִם׃

Joshua 7:5: 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:132 of Mova's parse database.

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