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title: Joshua 23:10 — One man of you hath chased a thousand; for the LORD your God, He it… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: One man of you hath chased a thousand; for the LORD your God, He it is that fought for you, as He spoke unto you. Who acts: One man, man. Joshua 23:10 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 23:10 יְהוֹשֻׁעַ

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**Who acts:** One man, man · **What happens:** chase, be, fight, speak · **To what, where:** thousand, man, name · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Joshua 23:10 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 — One man, man — and what happens in the verse to thousand, man, name, 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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אִישׁ־אֶחָ֥ד מִכֶּ֖ם יִרְדָּף־אָ֑לֶף כִּ֣י ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֗ם ה֚וּא הַנִּלְחָ֣ם לָכֶ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֥ר לָכֶֽם׃

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[One man of you hath chased a thousand; for the LORD your God, He it is that fought for you, as He spoke unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.641/)

## 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:618
# text = אִישׁ־אֶחָ֥ד מִכֶּ֖ם יִרְדָּף־אָ֑לֶף כִּ֣י ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֗ם ה֚וּא הַנִּלְחָ֣ם לָכֶ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֥ר לָכֶֽם׃
# verse = JOS.23.10
1	אִישׁ־	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Gloss=a.man|Ref=JOS_23:10!1|MId=o060230100011|Strong=0376|SpaceAfter=No
2	אֶחָ֥ד	אֶחָד	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	nummod	_	Gloss=one|Ref=JOS_23:10!2|MId=o060230100021|Strong=0259|Type=cardinal_number
3-4	מִכֶּ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=of|Ref=JOS_23:10!3|MId=o060230100031|Strong=4480
4	כֶּ֖ם	מִן	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	Gloss=you|Ref=JOS_23:10!3|MId=o060230100032|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
5	יִרְדָּף־	רָדַף	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.puts.to.flight|Ref=JOS_23:10!4|MId=o060230100041|Strong=7291|Frame=A0:060230100011;A1:060230100051;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No
6	אָ֑לֶף	אֶלֶף	NUM	_	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	Gloss=a.thousand|Ref=JOS_23:10!5|MId=o060230100051|Strong=0505|Type=cardinal_number
7	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	14	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=JOS_23:10!6|MId=o060230100061|Strong=3588
8	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	_	7	punct	_	Ref=JOS_23:10!6
9	יְהוָ֣ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	14	dislocated	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=JOS_23:10!7|MId=o060230100071|Strong=3068
10-11	אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֗ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	אֱלֹהֵי	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	9	appos	_	Gloss=God|Ref=JOS_23:10!8|MId=o060230100081|Strong=0430
11	כֶ֗ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your|Ref=JOS_23:10!8|MId=o060230100082|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
12	ה֚וּא	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	Gloss=he|Ref=JOS_23:10!9|MId=o060230100091|Strong=1931|Type=personal
13-14	הַנִּלְחָ֣ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	הַ	הַ	SCONJ	_	_	14	mark	_	Gloss=[is].the|Ref=JOS_23:10!10|MId=o060230100101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
14	נִּלְחָ֣ם	לָחַם	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	Gloss=[one.who].fights|Ref=JOS_23:10!10|MId=o060230100102|Strong=3898|Frame=A0:060230100071;|Type=participle_active
15-16	לָכֶ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=for|Ref=JOS_23:10!11|MId=o060230100111|Strong=3807a
16	ָכֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	Gloss=you|Ref=JOS_23:10!11|MId=o060230100112|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
17-18	כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	_	14	obl	_	Gloss=just|Ref=JOS_23:10!12|MId=o060230100121|Strong=3509a
18	אֲשֶׁ֖ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	19	mark	_	Gloss=as|Ref=JOS_23:10!12|MId=o060230100122|Strong=0834|Type=relative
19	דִּבֶּ֥ר	דָבַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3	17	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=he.spoke|Ref=JOS_23:10!13|MId=o060230100131|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:060230100071;|Type=qatal
20-21	לָכֶֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	21	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=JOS_23:10!14|MId=o060230100141|Strong=3807a
21	ָכֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	Gloss=you|Ref=JOS_23:10!14|MId=o060230100142|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=JOS_23:10!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִרְדָּף־ *he puts to flight* | yiqtol · qal | אִישׁ־ *a man* | אָלֶף *a thousand* |  |  |
| נִּלְחָם *\[one who\] fights* | participle active · niphal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* |  |  |  |
| דִּבֶּר *he spoke* | qatal · piel | יְהוָה *Yahweh* |  |  |  |

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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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גַבְרָא חָד מִנְכוֹן יִרְדוֹף אַלְפָא אֲרֵי יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן מֵימְרֵיהּ מֵגִיחַ לְכוֹן כְּמָא דִי מַלֵיל לְכוֹן:

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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. [One man of you hath chased a thousand; for the LORD your God, He it is that fought for you, as He spoke unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.641/)

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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:618`.

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