Joshua 8:12 · JPS 1917
And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai.
Who acts: valley · What happens: take, set · To what, where: five men, men, ambush
This is Joshua 8:12 · 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 (valley), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 five | advmod |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 five | compound |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ambush | case |
| 13 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 el | case |
| 15 | Beth | Beth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 el | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 el | punct |
| 17 | el | el | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Ai | cc |
| 19 | Ai | Ai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 el | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 side | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 23 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Ai | case |
| 26 | Ai | Ai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 side | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | valley | five men | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set | past | valley not said here | men = man | ambush | between Beth el and Ai; on the west side of Ai | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on side=Destination |
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
וַיִּקַּ֕ח כַּחֲמֵ֥שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֖ים אִ֑ישׁ וַיָּ֨שֶׂם אוֹתָ֜ם אֹרֵ֗ב בֵּ֧ין בֵּֽית־אֵ֛לבֵּֽית־אֵ֛ל וּבֵ֥ין הָעַ֖י מִיָּ֥ם לָעִֽיר׃
Joshua 8:12: 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:167 of Mova's parse database.
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