Joshua 8:13 · JPS 1917

So the people set themselves in array, even all the host that was on the north of the city, their rear lying in wait on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the vale.

Who acts: people, host, rear, Joshua · What happens: set, be, lie, go · To what, where: people, array, north, wait, midst

This is Joshua 8:13 · 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 (people, host, rear, Joshua), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 set	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 array	case
7	array	array	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 host	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	12 host	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 host	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 host	det
12	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	appos
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 north	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 north	cop
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 north	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 north	det
17	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 host	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 city	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 city	det
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 north	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rear	punct
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 rear	nmod:poss
23	rear	rear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lying	nsubj
24	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 set	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 wait	case
26	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lying	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 west	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 west	det
29	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lying	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 city	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 city	det
32	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 west	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 went	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 went	cc
35	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 went	nsubj
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 night	det
38	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 went	obl:unmarked
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 midst	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 midst	det
41	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 went	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 vale	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 vale	det
44	vale	vale	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 midst	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	the people	people	array			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in array=Destination
2	is	past	all host		the north		of the city	tree rules
3	lie	gerund	people's rear		wait		on the west of the city	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location
4	go	past	Joshua		the midst of the vale	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into midst=Initial_Location

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

וַיָּשִׂ֨ימוּ הָעָ֜ם אֶת־כָּל־הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֗ה אֲשֶׁר֙ מִצְּפ֣וֹן לָעִ֔יר וְאֶת־עֲקֵב֖וֹ מִיָּ֣ם לָעִ֑יר וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ בַּלַּ֥יְלָה הַה֖וּא בְּת֥וֹךְ הָעֵֽמֶק׃

Joshua 8:13: 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:168 of Mova's parse database.

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