Joshua 9:8 · JPS 1917

And they said unto Joshua: 'We are thy servants.' And Joshua said unto them: 'Who are ye? and from whence come ye?'

Who acts: men, We, Joshua, ye · What happens: say, be, come · To what, where: servants · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 9:8 · 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, We, Joshua, ye), 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 said	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 Joshua	case
5	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 servants	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 servants	punct
8	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 servants	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 servants	cop
10	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 servants	nmod:poss
11	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 servants	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 servants	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
17	unto	unto	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Who	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 Who	punct
21	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	16 said	ccomp
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Who	cop
23	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 Who	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 Who	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 whence	case
27	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	28 come	advmod
28	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Who	conj
29	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 come	nsubj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 Who	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 Who	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	men = man		unto Joshua	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	We	thy servants		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Joshua		unto men = man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	ye			tree rules
5	come	present	ye		whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ אֶל־יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ אֲנָ֑חְנוּ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֧ם יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ מִ֥י אַתֶּ֖ם וּמֵאַ֥יִן תָּבֹֽאוּ׃

Joshua 9:8: 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:198 of Mova's parse database.

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