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title: Joshua 6:21 — And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and wo… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. Who acts: people. Joshua 6:21 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 6:21 יְהוֹשֻׁעַ

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** destroy, be · **To what, where:** all, city

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This is Joshua 6:21 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 — people — and what happens in the verse to all, city, 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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וַֽיַּחֲרִ֙ימוּ֙ אֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּעִ֔יר מֵאִישׁ֙ וְעַד־אִשָּׁ֔ה מִנַּ֖עַר וְעַד־זָקֵ֑ן וְעַ֨ד שׁ֥וֹר וָשֶׂ֛ה וַחֲמ֖וֹר לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃

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[And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.121/)

## 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:118
# text = וַֽיַּחֲרִ֙ימוּ֙ אֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּעִ֔יר מֵאִישׁ֙ וְעַד־אִשָּׁ֔ה מִנַּ֖עַר וְעַד־זָקֵ֑ן וְעַ֨ד שׁ֥וֹר וָשֶׂ֛ה וַחֲמ֖וֹר לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃
# verse = JOS.6.21
1-2	וַֽיַּחֲרִ֙ימוּ֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_6:21!1|MId=o060060210011|Strong=2050b
2	יַּחֲרִ֙ימוּ֙	חָרַם	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.totally.destroyed|Ref=JOS_6:21!1|MId=o060060210012|Strong=2763|Frame=AA:060060200192;A0:060060210031;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=JOS_6:21!2|MId=o060060210021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
4	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Gloss=all|Ref=JOS_6:21!3|MId=o060060210031|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
5	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	8	mark	_	Gloss=that|Ref=JOS_6:21!4|MId=o060060210041|Strong=0834|Type=relative
6-8	בָּעִ֔יר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	בָּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=[was].in|Ref=JOS_6:21!5|MId=o060060210051|Strong=0871a
7	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	8	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=JOS_6:21!5|MId=o060060210051ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
8	עִ֔יר	עִיר	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=city|Ref=JOS_6:21!5|MId=o060060210052|Strong=5892
9-10	מֵאִישׁ֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=JOS_6:21!6|MId=o060060210061|Strong=4480
10	אִישׁ֙	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=man|Ref=JOS_6:21!6|MId=o060060210062|Strong=0376
11-12	וְעַד־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	13	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_6:21!7|MId=o060060210071|Strong=2050b
12	עַד־	עַד	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	Gloss=unto|Ref=JOS_6:21!7|MId=o060060210072|Strong=5704
13	אִשָּׁ֔ה	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Gloss=woman|Ref=JOS_6:21!8|MId=o060060210081|Strong=0802
14-15	מִנַּ֖עַר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=JOS_6:21!9|MId=o060060210091|Strong=4480
15	נַּ֖עַר	נַעַר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Gloss=young.man|Ref=JOS_6:21!9|MId=o060060210092|Strong=5288
16-17	וְעַד־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	18	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_6:21!10|MId=o060060210101|Strong=2050b
17	עַד־	עַד	ADP	_	_	18	case	_	Gloss=unto|Ref=JOS_6:21!10|MId=o060060210102|Strong=5704
18	זָקֵ֑ן	זָקֵן	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Gloss=old.[man]|Ref=JOS_6:21!11|MId=o060060210111|Strong=2205|Type=adjective
19-20	וְעַ֨ד	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	21	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_6:21!12|MId=o060060210121|Strong=2050b
20	עַ֨ד	עַד	ADP	_	_	21	case	_	Gloss=unto|Ref=JOS_6:21!12|MId=o060060210122|Strong=5704
21	שׁ֥וֹר	שׁוֹר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Gloss=ox[en]|Ref=JOS_6:21!13|MId=o060060210131|Strong=7794
22-23	וָשֶׂ֛ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	23	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_6:21!14|MId=o060060210141|Strong=2050b
23	שֶׂ֛ה	שֶׂה	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Gloss=sheep|Ref=JOS_6:21!14|MId=o060060210142|Strong=7716
24-25	וַחֲמ֖וֹר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
24	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	25	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOS_6:21!15|MId=o060060210151|Strong=2050b
25	חֲמ֖וֹר	חֲמוֹר	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Gloss=donkey[s]|Ref=JOS_6:21!15|MId=o060060210152|Strong=2543
26-27	לְפִי־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
26	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	27	case	_	Gloss=to.[the]|Ref=JOS_6:21!16|MId=o060060210161|Strong=3807a
27	פִי־	פֶּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=mouth|Ref=JOS_6:21!16|MId=o060060210162|Strong=6310
28	חָֽרֶב	חֶרֶב	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	27	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.[the].sword|Ref=JOS_6:21!17|MId=o060060210171|Strong=2719|SpaceAfter=No
29	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	28	punct	_	Ref=JOS_6:21!17
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יַּחֲרִימוּ *they totally destroyed* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | כָּל־ *all* |  |  |  |

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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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וּגְמָרוּ יַת כָּל דִבְקַרְתָּא מִגְבַר וְעַד אִתָּא מֵעוּלֵימָא וְעַד סָבָא וְעַד תּוֹר וְאִמַר וַחֲמָר לְפִתְגַם דְחֶרֶב:

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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. [And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.121/)

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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:118`.

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