Joshua 20:2 · JPS 1917

'Speak to the children of Israel, saying: Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you by the hand of Moses;

Who acts: you, I · What happens: speak, say, assign · To what, where: cities, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 20:2 · 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), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Speak	punct
2	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 children	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Speak	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Israel	case
7	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 children	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Speak	advcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Assign	punct
11	Assign	assign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 saying	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 Assign	iobj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cities	det
14	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 Assign	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 refuge	case
16	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cities	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct
18	whereof	whereof	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 spoke	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 spoke	nsubj
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cities	acl:relcl
21	unto	unto	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 spoke	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 hand	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hand	det
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoke	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Moses	case
27	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 hand	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Speak	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here			to the children of Israel	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to child=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	assign	infinitive		the cities of refuge	you		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal city=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past	I			unto you; by the hand of Moses; whereof property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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

דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר תְּנ֤וּ לָכֶם֙ אֶת־עָרֵ֣י הַמִּקְלָ֔ט אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם בְּיַד־מֹשֶֽׁה׃

Joshua 20:2: 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:544 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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