--- title: Joel 1:1 (JPS 1917) — THE WORD of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. · tree and pragmatics description: THE WORD of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Who acts: WORD. Joel 1:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 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/jps/JOL.0/) [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/) / [Joel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL/) / [chapter 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL/1/) / [1:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.1/) / JPS 1 # Joel 1:1 · JPS 1917 THE WORD of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. **Who acts:** WORD · **What happens:** come, word · **To what, where:** Joel, LORD This is Joel 1:1 · 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 (WORD), 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:JOL:0 # text = THE WORD of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 1 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 WORD word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Joel Joel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Pethuel Pethuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the WORD of the LORD | | | Joel | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to joel=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **word** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} דְּבַר־יְהוָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיָ֔ה אֶל־יוֹאֵ֖ל בֶּן־פְּתוּאֵֽל׃ [Joel 1:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOL:0` 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. - ← previous: [Hosea 14:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.214/) - next →: [Joel 1:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.1/) - ↑ back to [Joel 1:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.1/)