Joshua 24:16 · JPS 1917

And the people answered and said: 'Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

Who acts: people, it, we · What happens: answer, say, be, forsake, serve · To what, where: LORD, other gods · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 24:16 · 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 (people, it, we), 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	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 Far	punct
9	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 Far	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Far	nsubj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Far	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 Far	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 forsake	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 forsake	aux
17	forsake	forsake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Far	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 LORD	det
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 forsake	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 serve	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 serve	mark
22	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 forsake	advcl
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gods	amod
24	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 serve	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the people			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the people not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	infinitive	it		from us; far property	tree rules
4	forsake	should	we	the LORD		tree rules
5	serve	to-infinitive	we not said here	other gods		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute

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

וַיַּ֤עַן הָעָם֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר חָלִ֣ילָה לָּ֔נוּ מֵעֲזֹ֖ב אֶת־יְהוָ֑ה לַעֲבֹ֖ד אֱלֹהִ֥ים אֲחֵרִֽים׃

Joshua 24:16: 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:663 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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