Joshua 20:4 · JPS 1917

And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Who acts: manslayer, cities · What happens: flee, stand, declare, take, give, dwell · To what, where: entrance, cause, ears, manslayer, city, place

This is Joshua 20:4 · 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 (manslayer, cities), 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	_	4 flee	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flee	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 flee	aux
4	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 flee	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cities	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 cities	det
9	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stand	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stand	cc
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stand	aux
13	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flee	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 entrance	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 entrance	det
16	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stand	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 gate	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gate	det
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 entrance	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 city	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 city	det
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gate	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 declare	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 declare	cc
25	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stand	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cause	nmod:poss
27	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 declare	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 ears	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ears	det
30	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 declare	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 elders	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 elders	det
33	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ears	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 city	case
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 city	det
36	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 elders	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 take	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 take	cc
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 take	nsubj
40	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 take	aux
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flee	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 take	obj
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 city	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 city	det
45	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	obl
46	unto	unto	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 take	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 give	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 give	cc
50	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 take	conj
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 give	iobj
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 place	det
53	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 dwell	punct
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 dwell	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 dwell	nsubj
57	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 dwell	aux
58	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 give	advcl
59	among	among	ADP	_	60 them	case
60	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 dwell	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flee	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	shall	manslayer				unto one of that cities	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	shall	manslayer not said here			the entrance of the gate of the city		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at entrance=Location
3	declare speech: other	infinitive	manslayer not said here	manslayer's cause		the ears of the elders of that city		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Attribute
4	take	shall	cities = city	manslayer		the city	unto elders = elder	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into city=Destination
5	give	infinitive	cities = city not said here	a place	manslayer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Theme
6	dwell	may	manslayer				among cities = city	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location
7	cause		manslayer					nom cause «event 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

וְנָ֞ס אֶל־אַחַ֣ת ׀ מֵהֶעָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה וְעָמַד֙ פֶּ֚תַח שַׁ֣עַר הָעִ֔יר וְדִבֶּ֛ר בְּאָזְנֵ֛י זִקְנֵ֥י־הָעִֽירהַהִ֖יא אֶת־דְּבָרָ֑יו וְאָסְפ֨וּ אֹת֤וֹ הָעִ֙ירָה֙ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וְנָתְנוּ־ל֥וֹ מָק֖וֹם וְיָשַׁ֥ב עִמָּֽם׃

Joshua 20:4: 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:546 of Mova's parse database.

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