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title: Joshua 6:18 (JPS 1917) — And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest ye… · tree and pragmatics
description: And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed by taking of the devoted thing, so should ye make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it. Who acts: ye. Joshua 6:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 6:18 · JPS 1917

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And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed by taking of the devoted thing, so should ye make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** keep, make, take, trouble · **To what, where:** yourselves, wise, camp

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This is Joshua 6:18 · 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 (ye), 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:JOS:117
# text = And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed by taking of the devoted thing, so should ye make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
17	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	accursed	accursed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	accursed	accursed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	trouble	trouble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | infinitive | ye | yourselves |  | any wise |  | from the devoted thing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme in wise=Location |
| 2 | **make** | present | ye | yourselves |  |  |  | accursed *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourselves=Product |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the devoted thing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of thing=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **make** | should | ye | the camp of Israel |  |  |  | accursed *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camp=Product |
| 5 | **trouble** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | camp |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |

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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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וְרַק־אַתֶּם֙ שִׁמְר֣וּ מִן־הַחֵ֔רֶם פֶּֽן־תַּחֲרִ֖ימוּ וּלְקַחְתֶּ֣ם מִן־הַחֵ֑רֶם וְשַׂמְתֶּ֞ם אֶת־מַחֲנֵ֤ה יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לְחֵ֔רֶם וַעֲכַרְתֶּ֖ם אוֹתֽוֹ׃

[Joshua 6:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.6.18/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:117` 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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