Joshua 5:4 · JPS 1917

And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.

Who acts: this, Joshua, people · What happens: be, circumcise, come, die · To what, where: cause, Egypt, males

This is Joshua 5:4 · 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, Joshua, people), 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	_	5 cause	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 cause	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 circumcise	advmod
7	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 circumcise	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 circumcise	aux
9	circumcise	circumcise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cause	acl:relcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 people	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 died	nsubj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 people	acl:relcl
16	forth	forth	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	out	out	ADP	_	19 Egypt	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Egypt	case
19	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 males	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 males	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 males	cop
23	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 people	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 men	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	28 men	advmod
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 men	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 men	det
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 males	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 war	case
30	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 men	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
32	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 wilderness	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wilderness	det
35	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 died	obl
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 way	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 died	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 came	punct
40	after	after	SCONJ	_	42 came	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 came	nsubj
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 died	advcl
43	forth	forth	ADV	_	42 came	advmod
44	out	out	ADP	_	46 Egypt	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Egypt	case
46	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 came	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	the cause			tree rules
2	circumcise	past · do-support	Joshua				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	all people		Egypt	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out egypt=Initial_Location
4	is a	past	all people	males			tree rules
5	die	past	all people			by the way; in the wilderness	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wilderness=Attribute
6	come	past	people		Egypt	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out egypt=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

וְזֶ֥ה הַדָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁר־מָ֣ל יְהוֹשֻׁ֑עַ כָּל־הָעָ֣ם הַיֹּצֵא֩ מִמִּצְרַ֨יִם הַזְּכָרִ֜ים כֹּ֣ל ׀ אַנְשֵׁ֣י הַמִּלְחָמָ֗ה מֵ֤תוּ בַמִּדְבָּר֙ בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ בְּצֵאתָ֖ם מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

Joshua 5:4: 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:87 of Mova's parse database.

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