--- title: Joshua 8:35 (JPS 1917) — There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read… · tree and pragmatics description: There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that walked among them. Who acts: word, Moses, Joshua, strangers. 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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 (word, Moses, Joshua, strangers), 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:190 # text = There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that walked among them. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obj _ _ 9 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 13 Joshua Joshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 16 before before ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 among among ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **be** | past | a word of all | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **command** | past | Moses | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **read** | past | Joshua | a word of all | | | before all assembly of Israel and the women and the little ones and the strangers | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 4 | **walk** | past | the strangers | | | | | among women *= woman* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Trajectory | 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} לֹֽא־הָיָ֣ה דָבָ֔ר מִכֹּ֖ל אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֣ה מֹשֶׁ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹֽא־קָרָ֜א יְהוֹשֻׁ֗עַ נֶ֣גֶד כָּל־קְהַ֤ל יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְהַנָּשִׁ֣ים וְהַטַּ֔ף וְהַגֵּ֖ר הַהֹלֵ֥ךְ בְּקִרְבָּֽם׃פ [Joshua 8:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.8.35/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:190` 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 8:34 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.189/) - next →: [Joshua 9:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.191/) - ↑ back to [Joshua 8:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.8.35/)