Joshua 8:19 · JPS 1917
And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hastened and set the city on fire.
Who acts: ambush, men · What happens: arise, run, stretch out, enter, take, hasten · To what, where: place, hand, city, fire
This is Joshua 8:19 · 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 (ambush, men), 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 arose | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ambush | det |
| 3 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 arose | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 out | fixed |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 ran | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 soon | fixed |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stretched | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stretched | aux |
| 19 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 ran | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 stretched | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stretched | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 entered | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 entered | cc |
| 25 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 city | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 city | det |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entered | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 took | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 took | cc |
| 31 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 took | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 hastened | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hastened | cc |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 hastened | nsubj |
| 36 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 set | cc |
| 38 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hastened | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 city | det |
| 40 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 set | obj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 fire | case |
| 42 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 set | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the ambush | men's place | quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out place=Location | |||
| 2 | run | past | men = man | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch out | past · perfect | ambush | ambush's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 4 | enter | past | men = man not said here | the city | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | take | past | men = man not said here | hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hasten | past | men = man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | set | past | men = man not said here | the city | fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme on fire=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
וְהָאוֹרֵ֡ב קָם֩ מְהֵרָ֨ה מִמְּקוֹמ֤וֹ וַיָּר֙וּצוּ֙ כִּנְט֣וֹת יָד֔וֹ וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ הָעִ֖יר וַֽיִּלְכְּד֑וּהָ וַֽיְמַהֲר֔וּ וַיַּצִּ֥יתוּ אֶת־הָעִ֖יר בָּאֵֽשׁ׃
Joshua 8:19: 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:174 of Mova's parse database.
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