--- title: Joshua 22:26 — Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; Who acts: we, us. Joshua 22:26 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.22.26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Joshua](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS/) / [chapter 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS/22/) / 22:26 # Joshua 22:26 יְהוֹשֻׁעַ **Who acts:** we, us · **What happens:** say, let, prepare, build, burn · **To what, where:** us, altar · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Joshua 22:26 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: who acts — we, us — and what happens in the verse to us, altar, 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. וַנֹּ֕אמֶר נַעֲשֶׂה־נָּ֣א לָ֔נוּ לִבְנ֖וֹת אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ לֹ֥א לְעוֹלָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א לְזָֽבַח׃ [Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.623/) ## The tree {#tree} 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:600 # text = וַנֹּ֕אמֶר נַעֲשֶׂה־נָּ֣א לָ֔נוּ לִבְנ֖וֹת אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ לֹ֥א לְעוֹלָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א לְזָֽבַח׃ # verse = JOS.22.26 1-2 וַנֹּ֕אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_22:26!1|MId=o060220260011|Strong=2050b 2 נֹּ֕אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=we.said|Ref=JOS_22:26!1|MId=o060220260012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:060220210021;060220210042;060220210062;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 נַעֲשֶׂה־ עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 2 ccomp _ Gloss=let.us.act|Ref=JOS_22:26!2|MId=o060220260021|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:060220210021;060220210042;060220210062;|Type=cohortative|SpaceAfter=No 4 נָּ֣א נָא INTJ _ _ 3 discourse _ Gloss=please|Ref=JOS_22:26!3|MId=o060220260031|Strong=4994|Type=interjection 5-6 לָ֔נוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 ל לְ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=JOS_22:26!4|MId=o060220260041|Strong=3807a 6 ָ֔נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ Gloss=ourselves|Ref=JOS_22:26!4|MId=o060220260042|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 7-8 לִבְנ֖וֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=JOS_22:26!5|MId=o060220260051|Strong=3807a 8 בְנ֖וֹת בָּנָה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 3 advcl _ Gloss=building|Ref=JOS_22:26!5|MId=o060220260052|Strong=1129|Frame=A0:060220210021;060220210042;060220210062;A1:060220260072;|Type=infinitive_construct 9 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JOS_22:26!6|MId=o060220260061|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 10-11 הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JOS_22:26!7|MId=o060220260071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 מִּזְבֵּ֑חַ מִזְבֵּחַ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 obj _ Gloss=altar|Ref=JOS_22:26!7|MId=o060220260072|Strong=4196 12 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 3 parataxis _ Gloss=not|Ref=JOS_22:26!8|MId=o060220260081|Strong=3808|Type=negative 13-14 לְעוֹלָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=JOS_22:26!9|MId=o060220260091|Strong=3807a 14 עוֹלָ֖ה עֹלָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 obl _ Gloss=burnt.offering|Ref=JOS_22:26!9|MId=o060220260092|Strong=5930 15-16 וְלֹ֥א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_22:26!10|MId=o060220260101|Strong=2050b 16 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 12 conj _ Gloss=not|Ref=JOS_22:26!10|MId=o060220260102|Strong=3808|Type=negative 17-18 לְזָֽבַח _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=JOS_22:26!11|MId=o060220260111|Strong=3807a 18 זָֽבַח זֶבַח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=sacrifice|Ref=JOS_22:26!11|MId=o060220260112|Strong=2077 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=JOS_22:26!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - hedged: yes (נָא) - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | נֹּאמֶר *we said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | **not** נַעֲשֶׂה־ *let us act* | cohortative · qal | | | | | | בְנוֹת *building* | infinitive construct · qal | | מִּזְבֵּחַ *altar* | | | 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} וַאֲמַרְנָא נַעְבֵּיד כְּעַן לָנָא לְמִבְנֵי יַת מַדְבְּחָא לָא לַעֲלָתָא וְלָא לְנִכְסַת קוּדְשַׁיָא: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} 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. 1. [Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.623/) **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). 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