Joshua 2:23 · JPS 1917

Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen them.

Who acts: two men, men · What happens: return, descend, pass over, come, tell, befall · To what, where: mountain, Joshua, all, men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 2:23 · 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 (two men, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 returned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 descended	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 descended	cc
8	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 mountain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountain	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 descended	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 passed	cc
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
15	over	over	ADV	_	14 passed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Joshua	case
20	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Joshua	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Nun	case
24	Nun	Nun	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 told	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 befallen	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 befallen	aux
33	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 all	acl:relcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 befallen	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returned	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	return	past	the two men				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	descend	past	the two men not said here			the mountain			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Location
3	pass over	past	the two men not said here					over property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the two men not said here			Joshua			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to joshua=Initial_Location
5	tell speech: assert	past	men = man	all	Joshua				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Topic
6	befall	past · perfect		men = man					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

וַיָּשֻׁ֜בוּ שְׁנֵ֤י הָֽאֲנָשִׁים֙ וַיֵּרְד֣וּ מֵֽהָהָ֔ר וַיַּעַבְרוּ֙ וַיָּבֹ֔אוּ אֶל־יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ בִּן־נ֑וּן וַיְסַ֨פְּרוּ־ל֔וֹ אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַמֹּצְא֖וֹת אוֹתָֽם׃

Joshua 2:23: 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:41 of Mova's parse database.

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