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title: Joshua 9:23 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you… · tree and pragmatics
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# Joshua 9:23 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondmen, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.'

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**What happens:** curse, not fail, be · **To what, where:** ye, bondmen

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This is Joshua 9:23 · 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: 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:216
# text = Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondmen, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
16	bondmen	bondman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc:preconj	_	_
19	hewers	hewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | present · passive |  | ye |  |  | now | therefore *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **fail** | shall |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | bondmen |  |  |  | of you; for the house of my God | tree rules |

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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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וְעַתָּ֖ה אֲרוּרִ֣ים אַתֶּ֑ם וְלֹֽא־יִכָּרֵ֨ת מִכֶּ֜ם עֶ֗בֶד וְחֹטְבֵ֥י עֵצִ֛ים וְשֹֽׁאֲבֵי־מַ֖יִם לְבֵ֥ית אֱלֹהָֽי׃

[Joshua 9:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.9.23/)

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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:216` 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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