Joshua 20:9 · JPS 1917

These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person through error might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

Who acts: These, stranger, whosoever, person · What happens: be, sojourn, kill, flee, not die, stand · To what, where: appointed cities, person, error, congregation

This is Joshua 20:9 · 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 (These, stranger, whosoever, person), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 cities	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cities	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cities	det
4	appointed	appoint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cities	amod
5	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 children	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 children	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cities	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Israel	case
11	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 children	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stranger	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stranger	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 stranger	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stranger	det
16	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 children	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sojourneth	nsubj
18	sojourneth	sojourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 stranger	acl:relcl
19	among	among	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sojourneth	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 flee	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 flee	mark
23	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 flee	nsubj
24	killeth	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 whosoever	acl:relcl
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 person	det
26	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 killeth	obj
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 error	case
28	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 killeth	obl
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 flee	aux
30	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cities	advcl
31	thither	thither	ADV	_	30 flee	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 die	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 die	cc
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 die	advmod
35	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 flee	conj
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 hand	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hand	det
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 die	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 avenger	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 avenger	det
41	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hand	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 blood	case
43	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 avenger	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 stood	punct
45	until	until	SCONJ	_	47 stood	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 stood	nsubj
47	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 flee	advcl
48	before	before	ADP	_	50 congregation	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 congregation	det
50	congregation	congregation	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 stood	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cities	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	These	the appointed cities		for all children of Israel and the stranger	tree rules
2	sojourn	present	the stranger			among cities = city	vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location
3	kill	present		any person	error		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme
4	flee	might	whosoever			thither property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not die	infinitive	whosoever not said here			by the hand of the avenger of blood	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	stand	past	person		the congregation		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before congregation=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

אֵ֣לֶּה הָיוּ֩ עָרֵ֨י הַמּֽוּעָדָ֜ה לְכֹ֣ל ׀ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְלַגֵּר֙ הַגָּ֣ר בְּתוֹכָ֔ם לָנ֣וּס שָׁ֔מָּה כָּל־מַכֵּה־נֶ֖פֶשׁ בִּשְׁגָגָ֑ה וְלֹ֣א יָמ֗וּת בְּיַד֙ גֹּאֵ֣ל הַדָּ֔ם עַד־עָמְד֖וֹ לִפְנֵ֥י הָעֵדָֽה׃פ

Joshua 20:9: 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:551 of Mova's parse database.

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