Joshua 2:14 · JPS 1917
And the men said unto her: 'Our life for yours, if ye tell not this our business; and it shall be, when the LORD giveth us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.'
Who acts: men, ye, LORD, we · What happens: say, not tell, give, deal · To what, where: life, business, land, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Joshua 2:14 · 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, ye, LORD, we), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 life | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 life | punct |
| 9 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 yours | case |
| 12 | yours | yours | PRON | Number=Plur Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 tell | mark |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 life | advcl |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 tell | advmod |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 business | det |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 business | nmod:poss |
| 20 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 be | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 be | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 be | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 be | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 life | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 be | punct |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 giveth | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 LORD | det |
| 29 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 giveth | nsubj |
| 30 | giveth | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 be | advcl |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 giveth | iobj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 giveth | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 deal | punct |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 deal | mark |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 deal | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 deal | aux |
| 38 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 be | ccomp |
| 39 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 38 deal | advmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 truly | cc |
| 41 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 39 kindly | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 thee | case |
| 43 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 deal | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- promise
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=promise, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the men | Our life | unto Og; for yours | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent life=Topic | |||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | ye | our business | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent business=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | present | the LORD | the land | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient land=Theme | |||
| 4 | deal | future | we | with thee; kindly property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thou=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
וַיֹּ֧אמְרוּ לָ֣הּ הָאֲנָשִׁ֗ים נַפְשֵׁ֤נוּ תַחְתֵּיכֶם֙ לָמ֔וּת אִ֚ם לֹ֣א תַגִּ֔ידוּ אֶת־דְּבָרֵ֖נוּ זֶ֑ה וְהָיָ֗ה בְּתֵת־יְהוָ֥ה לָ֙נוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְעָשִׂ֥ינוּ עִמָּ֖ךְ חֶ֥סֶד וֶאֱמֶֽת׃
Joshua 2:14: 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:32 of Mova's parse database.
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