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title: Joshua 7:9 (JPS 1917) — For when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear of… · tree and pragmatics
description: For when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt Thou do for Thy great name?' Who acts: Canaanites, Thou, our, Thy. Joshua 7:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Joshua 7:9 · JPS 1917

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For when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt Thou do for Thy great name?'

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**Who acts:** Canaanites, Thou, our, Thy · **What happens:** hear, compass, cut off, do, name · **To what, where:** us, name, earth

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This is Joshua 7:9 · 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 (Canaanites, Thou, our, Thy), 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:136
# text = For when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt Thou do for Thy great name?'
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Canaanites	canaanite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	compass	compass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	round	round	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	obj	_	_
33	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | the Canaanites and all inhabitants of the land |  |  |  |  | of land | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **compass** | future | Canaanites *= canaanite* | us |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut off** | infinitive | Canaanites *= canaanite* *not said here* | our name |  | the earth |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent name=Theme from earth=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **do** | future | Thou |  |  |  |  | for Thy great name | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **name** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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וְיִשְׁמְע֣וּ הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֗י וְכֹל֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ וְנָסַ֣בּוּ עָלֵ֔ינוּ וְהִכְרִ֥יתוּ אֶת־שְׁמֵ֖נוּ מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וּמַֽה־תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה לְשִׁמְךָ֥ הַגָּדֽוֹל׃ס

[Joshua 7:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.9/)

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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:136` 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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