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title: Joshua 1:4 — From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, th… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border. Joshua 1:4 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Joshua 1:4 יְהוֹשֻׁעַ

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** border

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This is Joshua 1:4 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: what happens in the verse to border, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 24 chapters of Joshua on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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מֵהַמִּדְבָּר֩ וְהַלְּבָנ֨וֹן הַזֶּ֜ה וְֽעַד־הַנָּהָ֧ר הַגָּד֣וֹל נְהַר־פְּרָ֗ת כֹּ֚ל אֶ֣רֶץ הַֽחִתִּ֔ים וְעַד־הַיָּ֥ם הַגָּד֖וֹל מְב֣וֹא הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ יִֽהְיֶ֖ה גְּבוּלְכֶֽם׃

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[From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.3/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:JOS:3
# text = מֵהַמִּדְבָּר֩ וְהַלְּבָנ֨וֹן הַזֶּ֜ה וְֽעַד־הַנָּהָ֧ר הַגָּד֣וֹל נְהַר־פְּרָ֗ת כֹּ֚ל אֶ֣רֶץ הַֽחִתִּ֔ים וְעַד־הַיָּ֥ם הַגָּד֖וֹל מְב֣וֹא הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ יִֽהְיֶ֖ה גְּבוּלְכֶֽם׃
# verse = JOS.1.4
1-3	מֵהַמִּדְבָּר֩	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	_	3	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=JOS_1:4!1|MId=o060010040011|Strong=4480
2	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	3	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=JOS_1:4!1|MId=o060010040012|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
3	מִּדְבָּר֩	מִדְבָּר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=wilderness|Ref=JOS_1:4!1|MId=o060010040013|Strong=4057
4-6	וְהַלְּבָנ֨וֹן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	6	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_1:4!2|MId=o060010040021|Strong=2050b
5	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	6	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=JOS_1:4!2|MId=o060010040022|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
6	לְּבָנ֨וֹן	לְבָנוֹן	PROPN	_	_	3	conj	_	Gloss=Lebanon|Ref=JOS_1:4!2|MId=o060010040023|Strong=3844
7-8	הַזֶּ֜ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	8	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=JOS_1:4!3|MId=o060010040031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
8	זֶּ֜ה	זֶה	DET	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	Gloss=this|Ref=JOS_1:4!3|MId=o060010040032|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative
9-10	וְֽעַד־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	וְֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	12	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_1:4!4|MId=o060010040041|Strong=2050b
10	עַד־	עַד	ADP	_	_	12	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=JOS_1:4!4|MId=o060010040042|Strong=5704
11-12	הַנָּהָ֧ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	12	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=JOS_1:4!5|MId=o060010040051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
12	נָּהָ֧ר	נָהָר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Gloss=river|Ref=JOS_1:4!5|MId=o060010040052|Strong=5104
13-14	הַגָּד֣וֹל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	14	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=JOS_1:4!6|MId=o060010040061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
14	גָּד֣וֹל	גָּדוֹל	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	12	amod	_	Gloss=great|Ref=JOS_1:4!6|MId=o060010040062|Strong=1419|Type=adjective
15	נְהַר־	נָהָר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	12	appos	_	Gloss=the.river|Ref=JOS_1:4!7|MId=o060010040071|Strong=5104|SpaceAfter=No
16	פְּרָ֗ת	פְּרָת	PROPN	_	_	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Euphrates|Ref=JOS_1:4!8|MId=o060010040081|Strong=6578
17	כֹּ֚ל	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=all|Ref=JOS_1:4!9|MId=o060010040091|Strong=3605
18	אֶ֣רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	17	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.land|Ref=JOS_1:4!10|MId=o060010040101|Strong=0776
19-20	הַֽחִתִּ֔ים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	הַֽ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	20	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=JOS_1:4!11|MId=o060010040111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
20	חִתִּ֔ים	חִתִּי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	18	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.Hittites|Ref=JOS_1:4!11|MId=o060010040112|Strong=2850|Type=gentilic
21-22	וְעַד־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
21	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	24	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_1:4!12|MId=o060010040121|Strong=2050b
22	עַד־	עַד	ADP	_	_	24	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=JOS_1:4!12|MId=o060010040122|Strong=5704
23-24	הַיָּ֥ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
23	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	24	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=JOS_1:4!13|MId=o060010040131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
24	יָּ֥ם	יָם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Gloss=sea|Ref=JOS_1:4!13|MId=o060010040132|Strong=3220
25-26	הַגָּד֖וֹל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
25	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	26	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=JOS_1:4!14|MId=o060010040141|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
26	גָּד֖וֹל	גָּדוֹל	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	24	amod	_	Gloss=great|Ref=JOS_1:4!14|MId=o060010040142|Strong=1419|Type=adjective
27	מְב֣וֹא	מָבוֹא	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	24	appos	_	Gloss=the.setting|Ref=JOS_1:4!15|MId=o060010040151|Strong=3996
28-29	הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
28	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	29	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=JOS_1:4!16|MId=o060010040161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
29	שָּׁ֑מֶשׁ	שֶׁמֶשׁ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	27	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.sun|Ref=JOS_1:4!16|MId=o060010040162|Strong=8121
30	יִֽהְיֶ֖ה	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	24	cop	_	Gloss=it.will.be|Ref=JOS_1:4!17|MId=o060010040171|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:060010040181;|Type=yiqtol
31-32	גְּבוּלְכֶֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
31	גְּבוּל	גְּבוּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Gloss=territory|Ref=JOS_1:4!18|MId=o060010040181|Strong=1366
32	ְכֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your|Ref=JOS_1:4!18|MId=o060010040182|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
33	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	32	punct	_	Ref=JOS_1:4!18
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִֽהְיֶה *it will be* | yiqtol · qal | גְּבוּל *territory* |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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מִמַדְבְּרָא וּלְבָנוֹנָא הָדֵין וְעַד נַהֲרָא רַבָּא נַהֲרָא דִפְרָת כֹּל אַרַע חִתָּאֵי וְעַד יַמָא רַבָּא מַעֲלָנֵי שִׁמְשָׁא יְהֵא תְחוּמְכוֹן:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.3/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:JOS:3`.

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