Joshua 3:6 · JPS 1917

And Joshua spoke unto the priests, saying: 'Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass on before the people.' And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

Who acts: Joshua, people · What happens: speak, say, take up, pass on, go · To what, where: ark · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 3:6 · 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, people), 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 spoke	cc
2	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 priests	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priests	det
6	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoke	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spoke	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Take	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 Take	punct
11	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	ccomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 Take	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ark	det
14	ark	ark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Take	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 covenant	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 covenant	det
17	covenant	covenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ark	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pass	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pass	cc
20	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 Take	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	20 pass	compound:prt
22	before	before	ADP	_	24 people	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pass	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Take	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 Take	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 took	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ark	det
32	ark	ark	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 covenant	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 covenant	det
35	covenant	covenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ark	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 went	cc
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 took	conj
39	before	before	ADP	_	41 people	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 people	det
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 went	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Joshua			unto the priests	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Joshua not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take up	infinitive		the ark of the covenant			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ark=Theme
4	pass on	infinitive			before the people		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	take up	past	people	the ark of the covenant			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ark=Theme
6	go	past	people not said here		before the people		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before people=Location

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙ אֶל־הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים לֵאמֹ֔ר שְׂאוּ֙ אֶת־אֲר֣וֹן הַבְּרִ֔ית וְעִבְר֖וּ לִפְנֵ֣י הָעָ֑ם וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙ אֶת־אֲר֣וֹן הַבְּרִ֔ית וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ לִפְנֵ֥י הָעָֽם׃ס

Joshua 3:6: 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:48 of Mova's parse database.

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