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title: Joshua 8:2 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and… · tree and pragmatics
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# Joshua 8:2 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king; only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves; set thee an ambush for the city behind it.'

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**Who acts:** thou, ye · **What happens:** do, take, set · **To what, where:** Ai, ambush, thee

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This is Joshua 8:2 · 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 (thou, 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:157
# text = And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king; only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves; set thee an ambush for the city behind it.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ai	Ai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Jericho	Jericho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	parataxis	_	_
22	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
27	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
38	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
39	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	iobj	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	ambush	ambush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	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 | **do** | shall | thou |  | Ai and Ai's king |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | thou |  |  |  |  | unto Jericho and Ai's king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | shall | ye |  |  |  |  | for a prey; unto yourselves | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for prey=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive |  | a ambush | thee |  |  | for the city behind city | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme ambush=Destination |

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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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וְעָשִׂ֨יתָ לָעַ֜י וּלְמַלְכָּ֗הּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשִׂ֤יתָ לִֽירִיחוֹ֙ וּלְמַלְכָּ֔הּ רַק־שְׁלָלָ֥הּ וּבְהֶמְתָּ֖הּ תָּבֹ֣זּוּ לָכֶ֑ם שִׂים־לְךָ֥ אֹרֵ֛ב לָעִ֖יר מֵאַחֲרֶֽיהָ׃

[Joshua 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.8.2/)

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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:157` 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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