Joshua 4:17 · JPS 1917
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying: 'Come ye up out of the Jordan.'
Who acts: Joshua · What happens: command, say, come up · To what, where: priests · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Joshua 4:17 · 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 (Joshua), 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 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 commanded | advmod |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 priests | det |
| 5 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 10 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 11 | ye | ye | ADV | _ | 10 Come | advmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 Come | advmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 of | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Jordan | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Jordan | det |
| 16 | Jordan | Jordan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Come | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Joshua | the priests | therefore property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent priest=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Joshua not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come up | infinitive | of the Jordan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of jordan=Initial_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
וַיְצַ֣ו יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ אֶת־הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים לֵאמֹ֑ר עֲל֖וּ מִן־הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃
Joshua 4:17: 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:76 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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