Joshua 18:3 · JPS 1917
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, hath given you?
Who acts: Joshua, ye, LORD · What happens: say, be, go in, possess, give · To what, where: land, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Joshua 18:3 · 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 (Joshua, ye, LORD), 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 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 children | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 children | det |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Israel | case |
| 8 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 children | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 slack | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 slack | punct |
| 11 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 slack | advmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 slack | cop |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 slack | nsubj |
| 15 | slack | slack | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 slack | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 possess | mark |
| 20 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 possess | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 given | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 given | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 LORD | det |
| 26 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 given | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 God | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 God | det |
| 29 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 LORD | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 fathers | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 32 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 God | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 LORD | punct |
| 34 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 given | aux |
| 35 | given | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 land | acl:relcl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 given | iobj |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Joshua | unto the children of Israel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | ye | long, slack property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in | to-infinitive | ye not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | possess | to-infinitive | ye not said here | the land | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | present · perfect | the LORD | the land | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=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
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עַד־אָ֙נָה֙ אַתֶּ֣ם מִתְרַפִּ֔ים לָבוֹא֙ לָרֶ֣שֶׁת אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁר֙ נָתַ֣ן לָכֶ֔ם יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃
Joshua 18:3: 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:462 of Mova's parse database.
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