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title: Joshua 7:1 (JPS 1917) — But the children of Israel committed a trespass concerning the devot… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the children of Israel committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel. Who acts: children, Achan, LORD. Josh
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# Joshua 7:1 · JPS 1917

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But the children of Israel committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

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**Who acts:** children, Achan, LORD · **What happens:** commit, take, kindle, anger · **To what, where:** trespass, anger

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This is Joshua 7:1 · 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 (children, Achan, LORD), 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:128
# text = But the children of Israel committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	committed	commit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trespass	trespass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	concerning	concerning	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	8	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
15	Achan	Achan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Carmi	Carmi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Zabdi	Zabdi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Zerah	Zerah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
38	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
52	against	against	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **commit** | past | the children of Israel | a trespass |  |  |  | concerning the devoted thing | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trespass=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | Achan |  |  |  |  | of the devoted thing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of thing=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **kindle** | past · passive |  | the anger of the LORD |  |  |  | against the children of Israel | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **anger** |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=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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וַיִּמְעֲל֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל מַ֖עַל בַּחֵ֑רֶם וַיִּקַּ֡ח עָכָ֣ן בֶּן־כַּרְמִי֩ בֶן־זַבְדִּ֨י בֶן־זֶ֜רַח לְמַטֵּ֤ה יְהוּדָה֙ מִן־הַחֵ֔רֶם וַיִּֽחַר־אַ֥ף יְהוָ֖ה בִּבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Joshua 7:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.1/)

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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:128` 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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