Joshua 22:28 · JPS 1917

Therefore said we: It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say: Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.

Who acts: we, children, fathers, altar · What happens: say, come, behold, make, be, pattern · To what, where: us, pattern, LORD, witness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 22:28 · 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 (we, children, fathers, altar), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 be	punct
5	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 be	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 be	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 be	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 say	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 be	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 say	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 generations	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 generations	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 generations	nmod:poss
18	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 us	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 time	case
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 come	mark
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 time	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 say	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 say	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 say	aux
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 be	advcl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Behold	punct
29	Behold	Behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 say	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pattern	det
31	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Behold	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 altar	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 altar	det
34	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pattern	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 LORD	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 LORD	det
37	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 altar	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 made	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 made	obj
40	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 fathers	nmod:poss
41	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 made	nsubj
42	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 LORD	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 offering	punct
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 offering	advmod
45	for	for	ADP	_	48 offering	case
46	burnt	burn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 offering	amod
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 offering	punct
48	offering	offering	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sacrifice	punct
50	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	52 sacrifice	cc
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 sacrifice	case
52	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 offering	conj
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 witness	punct
54	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 witness	cc
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 witness	nsubj
56	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 witness	cop
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 witness	det
58	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Behold	conj
59	between	between	ADP	_	60 us	case
60	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 witness	nmod
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 you	cc
62	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	60 us	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	we				therefore property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	children = child		us	time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient
3	come	to-infinitive	children = child not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	shall	we					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	behold	infinitive		the pattern of the altar of the LORD				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus
6	make	past	our fathers	the LORD			for burnt offering nor sacrifice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent which=Product for offering=Asset
7	is a	present	altar	a witness			between us	tree rules
8	pattern		the altar of the LORD					nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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

וַנֹּ֕אמֶר וְהָיָ֗ה כִּֽי־יֹאמְר֥וּ אֵלֵ֛ינוּ וְאֶל־דֹּרֹתֵ֖ינוּ מָחָ֑ר וְאָמַ֡רְנוּ רְא֣וּ אֶת־תַּבְנִית֩ מִזְבַּ֨ח יְהוָ֜ה אֲשֶׁר־עָשׂ֣וּ אֲבוֹתֵ֗ינוּ לֹ֤א לְעוֹלָה֙ וְלֹ֣א לְזֶ֔בַח כִּי־עֵ֣ד ה֔וּא בֵּינֵ֖ינוּ וּבֵינֵיכֶֽם׃

Joshua 22:28: 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:625 of Mova's parse database.

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