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title: Joel 2:8 (JPS 1917) — Neither doth one thrust another, they march every one in his highway… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither doth one thrust another, they march every one in his highway; and they break through the weapons, and suffer no harm. Who acts: one, people. Joel 2:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joel 2:8 · JPS 1917

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Neither doth one thrust another, they march every one in his highway; and they break through the weapons, and suffer no harm.

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**Who acts:** one, people · **What happens:** thrust, march, break, suffer · **To what, where:** another, one, highway, weapons, harm

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This is Joel 2:8 · 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 (one, people), 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:28
# text = Neither doth one thrust another, they march every one in his highway; and they break through the weapons, and suffer no harm.
1	Neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
2	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thrust	thrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	march	march	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	PronType=Ind	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **thrust** | present · do-support | one | another |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme |
| 2 | **march** | present | people | one |  | blackness's highway |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in highway=Trajectory |
| 3 | **break** | present | people |  |  | the weapons |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through weapon=Location |
| 4 | **suffer** | present | people *not said here* | no harm |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus |

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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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וְאִ֤ישׁ אָחִיו֙ לֹ֣א יִדְחָק֔וּן גֶּ֥בֶר בִּמְסִלָּת֖וֹ יֵֽלֵכ֑וּן וּבְעַ֥ד הַשֶּׁ֛לַח יִפֹּ֖לוּ לֹ֥א יִבְצָֽעוּ׃

[Joel 2:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.8/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOL:28` 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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