Joshua 5:3 · JPS 1917
And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at Gibeath-ha-araloth.
Who acts: Joshua · What happens: make, circumcise · To what, where: knives, LORD, children, ha araloth
This is Joshua 5:3 · 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 made | cc |
| 2 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | iobj |
| 5 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flint | case |
| 7 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knives | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 circumcised | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 circumcised | cc |
| 10 | circumcised | circumcise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 children | det |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 circumcised | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Israel | case |
| 14 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 children | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 araloth | case |
| 16 | Gibeath | Gibeath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ha | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ha | punct |
| 18 | ha | ha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 araloth | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 araloth | punct |
| 20 | araloth | araloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 circumcised | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Joshua | knives of flint | LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary knife=Product | |||
| 2 | circumcise | past | Joshua not said here | the children of Israel | ha araloth | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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
וַיַּעַשׂ־ל֥וֹ יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ חַֽרְב֣וֹת צֻרִ֑ים וַיָּ֙מָל֙ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶל־גִּבְעַ֖ת הָעֲרָלֽוֹת׃
Joshua 5:3: 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:86 of Mova's parse database.
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