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title: Joshua 10:13 (JPS 1917) — And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. Who acts: sun. Joshua 10:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 10:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** stay, not haste, go down · **To what, where:** midst

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This is Joshua 10:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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 (sun), 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:235
# text = And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hasted	haste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **stay** | past | the sun |  |  | the midst of heaven |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
| 2 | **not** **haste** | past | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go down** | to-infinitive | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  | day | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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וַיִּדֹּ֨ם הַשֶּׁ֜מֶשׁ וְיָרֵ֣חַ עָמָ֗ד עַד־יִקֹּ֥ם גּוֹי֙ אֹֽיְבָ֔יו הֲלֹא־הִ֥יא כְתוּבָ֖ה עַל־סֵ֣פֶר הַיָּשָׁ֑ר וַיַּעֲמֹ֤ד הַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ בַּחֲצִ֣י הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְלֹא־אָ֥ץ לָב֖וֹא כְּי֥וֹם תָּמִֽים׃

[Joshua 10:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.10.13/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.233/)
2. [Is not this written in the book of Jashar?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.234/)
3. **And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.**

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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:235` 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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