Joshua 2:2 · JPS 1917

And it was told the king of Jericho, saying: 'Behold, there came men in hither to-night of the children of Israel to search out the land.'

Who acts: men · What happens: tell, say, come, search out · To what, where: name, king, land · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 2:2 · 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), 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 told	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Jericho	case
8	Jericho	Jericho	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 king	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	16 came	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Behold	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 came	expl
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	ccomp
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 hither	case
19	hither	hither	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 night	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl:unmarked
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 children	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 children	det
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 men	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Israel	case
27	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 children	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 search	mark
29	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	advcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 search	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 land	det
32	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 search	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 came	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	tell speech: assert	past · passive		name	the king of Jericho				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient king=Topic
2	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	past	men of the children of Israel			there	night	hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	search out	to-infinitive	men of the children of Israel not said here	the land					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent land=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

וַיֵּ֣אָמַ֔ר לְמֶ֥לֶךְ יְרִיח֖וֹ לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֣ה אֲ֠נָשִׁים בָּ֣אוּ הֵ֧נָּה הַלַּ֛יְלָה מִבְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לַחְפֹּ֥ר אֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Joshua 2:2: 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:20 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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