Joshua 2:1 · JPS 1917

And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two spies secretly, saying: 'Go view the land, and Jericho.' And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there.

Who acts: Joshua, land, name, Rahab · What happens: send, say, go, view, come, be · To what, where: two spies, Shittim, land, house, Rahab · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 2:1 · 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, land, name, Rahab), 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	_	7 sent	cc
2	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sent	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Joshua	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Nun	case
6	Nun	Nun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 Shittim	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 out	fixed
10	Shittim	Shittim	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obl
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 spies	nummod
12	spies	spy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	obj
13	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	7 sent	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sent	advcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Go	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 Go	punct
18	Go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saying	ccomp
19	view	view	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Go	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 land	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 view	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Jericho	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Jericho	cc
24	Jericho	Jericho	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 land	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 Go	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 Go	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 came	cc
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 house	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 house	det
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 harlot	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 harlot	det
38	harlot	harlot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 house	nmod
39	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	40 name	nmod:poss
40	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Rahab	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 Rahab	cop
42	Rahab	Rahab	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 harlot	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 lay	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 lay	cc
45	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	conj
46	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 lay	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	Joshua	two spies	Shittim	secretly property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent spy=Theme out shittim=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Joshua not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	view	infinitive		the land and Jericho			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus
5	go	past	land				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	land not said here		the house of a harlot		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
7	is a	past	Rahab's name	Rahab			tree rules
8	lie	past	land not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	name		Rahab				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח יְהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ־בִּן־נ֠וּן מִֽן־הַשִּׁטִּ֞ים שְׁנַֽיִם־אֲנָשִׁ֤ים מְרַגְּלִים֙ חֶ֣רֶשׁ לֵאמֹ֔ר לְכ֛וּ רְא֥וּ אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְאֶת־יְרִיח֑וֹ וַיֵּ֨לְכ֜וּ וַ֠יָּבֹאוּ בֵּית־אִשָּׁ֥ה זוֹנָ֛ה וּשְׁמָ֥הּ רָחָ֖ב וַיִּשְׁכְּבוּ־שָֽׁמָּה׃

Joshua 2:1: 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:19 of Mova's parse database.

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