Joshua 24:21 · JPS 1917
And the people said unto Joshua: 'Nay; but we will serve the LORD.'
Who acts: people, we · What happens: say, serve · To what, where: LORD · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Joshua 24:21 · 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, 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 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 Joshua | case |
| 6 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nay | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nay | punct |
| 9 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 serve | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 serve | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 serve | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 serve | aux |
| 14 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Nay | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 LORD | det |
| 16 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 serve | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 serve | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the people | unto Joshua | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | serve | future | we | the LORD | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=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
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הָעָ֖ם אֶל־יְהוֹשֻׁ֑עַ לֹ֕א כִּ֥י אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה נַעֲבֹֽד׃
Joshua 24:21: 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:668 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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