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title: Joshua 6:21 (JPS 1917) — And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and wo… · tree and pragmatics
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# Joshua 6:21 · JPS 1917

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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.

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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 · 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 (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:JOS:121
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc:preconj	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **destroy** | past | people | all |  |  |  | with the edge of the sword; utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent all=Patient with edge=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the city |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַֽיַּחֲרִ֙ימוּ֙ אֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּעִ֔יר מֵאִישׁ֙ וְעַד־אִשָּׁ֔ה מִנַּ֖עַר וְעַד־זָקֵ֑ן וְעַ֨ד שׁ֥וֹר וָשֶׂ֛ה וַחֲמ֖וֹר לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃

[Joshua 6:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.6.21/)

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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:121` 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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