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title: Joshua 9:20 (JPS 1917) — This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, b… · tree and pragmatics
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# Joshua 9:20 · JPS 1917

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This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.'

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**Who acts:** we, princes, wrath · **What happens:** do, let, live, be, swear · **To what, where:** This, princes, oath

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This is Joshua 9:20 · 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 (we, princes, wrath), 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:213
# text = This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.'
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=promise

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | future | we | This | princes *= prince* |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | we *not said here* | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | infinitive | princes *= prince* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | wrath because the oath |  |  |  |  | upon us | tree rules |
| 5 | **swear** | past | we | the oath |  |  |  | unto princes *= prince* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |

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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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זֹ֛את נַעֲשֶׂ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם וְהַחֲיֵ֣ה אוֹתָ֑ם וְלֹֽא־יִֽהְיֶ֤ה עָלֵ֙ינוּ֙ קֶ֔צֶף עַל־הַשְּׁבוּעָ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־נִשְׁבַּ֥עְנוּ לָהֶֽם׃

[Joshua 9:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.9.20/)

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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:213` 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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