Joshua 20:5 · JPS 1917
And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unawares, and hated him not beforetime.
Who acts: avenger, cities, manslayer · What happens: pursue, not deliver up, smite, not hate · To what, where: manslayer, hand, neighbour
This is Joshua 20:5 · 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 (avenger, cities, manslayer), 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 | _ | 15 deliver | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 pursue | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 avenger | det |
| 4 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pursue | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 blood | case |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 avenger | nmod |
| 7 | pursue | pursue | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 deliver | advcl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pursue | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pursue | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 deliver | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deliver | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | Mood=Ind VerbForm=Fin | 15 deliver | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 deliver | advmod |
| 15 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 deliver | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 manslayer | det |
| 18 | manslayer | manslayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deliver | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deliver | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 deliver | punct |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 smote | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 smote | nsubj |
| 25 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 deliver | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 27 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 smote | obj |
| 28 | unawares | unawares | ADV | _ | 25 smote | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hated | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hated | cc |
| 31 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 smote | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hated | obj |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 hated | advmod |
| 34 | beforetime | beforetime | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 hated | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue a condition, not said to happen | present | the avenger of blood | after manslayer | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not deliver up | shall | cities = city | the manslayer | manslayer's hand | then | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manslayer=Patient | ||
| 3 | smite | past | manslayer | manslayer's neighbour | unawares property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neighbour=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | not hate | past | manslayer not said here | manslayer | beforetime property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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
וְכִ֨י יִרְדֹּ֜ף גֹּאֵ֤ל הַדָּם֙ אַֽחֲרָ֔יו וְלֹֽא־יַסְגִּ֥רוּ אֶת־הָרֹצֵ֖חַ בְּיָד֑וֹ כִּ֤י בִבְלִי־דַ֙עַת֙ הִכָּ֣ה אֶת־רֵעֵ֔הוּ וְלֹֽא־שֹׂנֵ֥א ה֛וּא ל֖וֹ מִתְּמ֥וֹל שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃
Joshua 20:5: 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:547 of Mova's parse database.
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