Joshua 4:6 · JPS 1917

that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying: What mean ye by these stones?

Who acts: this, children, ye · What happens: be, ask, come, say, mean · To what, where: sign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 4:6 · 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 (this, children, ye), 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 sign	mark
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sign	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sign	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sign	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sign	det
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	among	among	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sign	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 saying	mark
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 ask	mark
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ask	nsubj
14	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 saying	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 time	case
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ask	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 come	mark
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 time	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sign	advcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 mean	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 mean	obj
23	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 saying	ccomp
24	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 mean	nsubj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 stones	case
26	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 stones	det
27	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mean	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sign	punct

Pragmatics

form: other
act: ask
voice: none
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed form=other

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	may	this	a sign		among you	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	your children		time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	to-infinitive	your children not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	this not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	mean	present	ye			by this stones	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

לְמַ֗עַן תִּֽהְיֶ֛ה זֹ֥את א֖וֹת בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם כִּֽי־יִשְׁאָל֨וּן בְּנֵיכֶ֤ם מָחָר֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר מָ֛ה הָאֲבָנִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה לָכֶֽם׃

Joshua 4:6: 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:65 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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