--- title: Joshua 7:25 (JPS 1917) — And Joshua said: 'Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble… · tree and pragmatics description: And Joshua said: 'Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day.' And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones. Who acts: Joshua, thou, LORD, Israel. 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And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones. **Who acts:** Joshua, thou, LORD, Israel, messengers · **What happens:** say, trouble, stone, burn · **To what, where:** us, thee, Joshua, mantle · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Joshua 7:25 · 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 (Joshua, thou, LORD, Israel), 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:153 # text = And Joshua said: 'Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day.' And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Joshua Joshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 9 troubled trouble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 10 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 trouble trouble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 16 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obj _ _ 17 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 21 And and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 stoned stone VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 stoned stone VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: disagree - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=disagree | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joshua | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **trouble** | present · perfect | thou | us | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | | 3 | **trouble** | shall | the LORD | thee | | | day | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer | | 4 | **stone** | past | all Israel | | Joshua | | | with stones | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with stone=Theme | | 5 | **burn** | past | messengers *= messenger* | mantle | | | | with fire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with fire=Instrument | | 6 | **stone** | past | messengers *= messenger* *not said here* | mantle | | | | with stones | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with stone=Theme | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙ מֶ֣ה עֲכַרְתָּ֔נוּ יַעְכֳּרְךָ֥ יְהוָ֖ה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וַיִּרְגְּמ֨וּ אֹת֤וֹ כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶ֔בֶן וַיִּשְׂרְפ֤וּ אֹתָם֙ בָּאֵ֔שׁ וַיִּסְקְל֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם בָּאֲבָנִֽים׃ [Joshua 7:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:153` 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. - ← previous: [Joshua 7:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.152/) - next →: [Joshua 7:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.154/) - ↑ back to [Joshua 7:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.25/)