Joshua 10:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies.
Who acts: sun, moon, nation · What happens: stand, stay, avenge · To what, where: Amorites
This is Joshua 10:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (sun, moon, nation), 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 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stayed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stayed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moon | det |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stayed | nsubj |
| 10 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 avenged | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 avenged | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nation | det |
| 14 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 avenged | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 avenged | aux |
| 16 | avenged | avenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 stayed | advcl |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 avenged | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 enemies | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 20 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 avenged | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the sun | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | the moon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | avenge | past · perfect | the nation | Amorites = amorite | of Amorites's enemies | tree rules |
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
וַיִּדֹּ֨ם הַשֶּׁ֜מֶשׁ וְיָרֵ֣חַ עָמָ֗ד עַד־יִקֹּ֥ם גּוֹי֙ אֹֽיְבָ֔יו הֲלֹא־הִ֥יא כְתוּבָ֖ה עַל־סֵ֣פֶר הַיָּשָׁ֑ר וַיַּעֲמֹ֤ד הַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ בַּחֲצִ֣י הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְלֹא־אָ֥ץ לָב֖וֹא כְּי֥וֹם תָּמִֽים׃
Joshua 10:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies.
- Is not this written in the book of Jashar?
- And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOS:233 of Mova's parse database.
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