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title: Judges 2:6 (JPS 1917) — Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel wen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. Who acts: Joshua, children, man. Judges 2:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 2:6 · JPS 1917

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Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.

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**Who acts:** Joshua, children, man · **What happens:** send away, go, possess, inherit · **To what, where:** people, land

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This is Judges 2:6 · 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 (Joshua, children, man), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JDG:43
# text = Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	away	away	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:outer	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send away** | past · perfect | Joshua | the people |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the children of Israel |  |  |  | now | unto man's inheritance | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** | to-infinitive | the children of Israel *not said here* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme |
| 4 | **inherit** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#hebrew}

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וַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ אֶת־הָעָ֑ם וַיֵּלְכ֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אִ֥ישׁ לְנַחֲלָת֖וֹ לָרֶ֥שֶׁת אֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Judges 2:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.2.6/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:43` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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