Joshua 21:2 · JPS 1917

and they spoke unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying: 'The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the open land thereabout for our cattle.'

Who acts: heads, LORD · What happens: speak, say, command, give, dwell · To what, where: Shiloh, cities, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 21:2 · 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 (heads, LORD), 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Shiloh	case
7	Shiloh	Shiloh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Canaan	case
12	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 land	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spoke	advcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 commanded	punct
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 LORD	det
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 commanded	nsubj
19	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	ccomp
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hand	det
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 commanded	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Moses	case
24	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 hand	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 commanded	xcomp
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 give	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 dwell	mark
30	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 give	advcl
31	in	in	ADV	_	30 dwell	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 land	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 land	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 land	det
35	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 land	amod
36	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dwell	obl
37	thereabout	thereabout	ADV	_	36 land	advmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 cattle	case
39	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 cattle	nmod:poss
40	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dwell	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	heads = head			Shiloh	unto Eleazar; in the land of Canaan	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	heads = head not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	command	past	the LORD				by the hand of Moses	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	the LORD not said here	cities	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient city=Theme
5	dwell	to-infinitive	the LORD not said here				with the open land; for our cattle	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with land=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

וַיְדַבְּר֨וּ אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם בְּשִׁלֹ֗ה בְּאֶ֤רֶץ כְּנַ֙עַן֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יְהוָה֙ צִוָּ֣ה בְיַד־מֹשֶׁ֔ה לָֽתֶת־לָ֥נוּ עָרִ֖ים לָשָׁ֑בֶת וּמִגְרְשֵׁיהֶ֖ן לִבְהֶמְתֵּֽנוּ׃

Joshua 21:2: 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:553 of Mova's parse database.

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