Joshua 18:4 · JPS 1917

Appoint for you three men for each tribe; and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come unto me.

Who acts: you, I, men · What happens: appoint, send, arise, walk, describe, accord · To what, where: three men, men, land

This is Joshua 18:4 · 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 (you, I, 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	Appoint	appoint	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 you	case
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Appoint	obl
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Appoint	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 tribe	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 tribe	det
8	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 send	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 send	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 send	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 send	aux
13	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Appoint	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 send	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 arise	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 arise	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 arise	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 arise	aux
19	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 send	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 walk	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 walk	cc
22	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 arise	conj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 land	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 land	det
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walk	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 describe	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 describe	cc
28	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 arise	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 describe	obj
30	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 inheritance	case
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 according	fixed
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 inheritance	nmod:poss
33	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 describe	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 come	cc
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 come	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 come	aux
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 send	conj
39	unto	unto	ADP	_	40 me	case
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 come	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Appoint	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appoint	imperative	you not said here	three men		for you; for each tribe	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	send	future	I	men = man			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	arise	shall	men = man				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	walk	infinitive	men = man not said here		the land		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory
5	describe	infinitive	men = man not said here	land		accord men's inheritance	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
7	come	shall	men = man			unto me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	inherit		men = man				nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

הָב֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה אֲנָשִׁ֖ים לַשָּׁ֑בֶט וְאֶשְׁלָחֵ֗ם וְיָקֻ֜מוּ וְיִֽתְהַלְּכ֥וּ בָאָ֛רֶץ וְיִכְתְּב֥וּ אוֹתָ֛הּ לְפִ֥י נַֽחֲלָתָ֖ם וְיָבֹ֥אוּ אֵלָֽי׃

Joshua 18:4: 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:463 of Mova's parse database.

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