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title: Joshua 10:21 (JPS 1917) — that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace; none whetted his tongue against any of the children of Israel. Who acts: people, none. Joshua 10:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 10:21 · JPS 1917

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that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace; none whetted his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

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**Who acts:** people, none · **What happens:** return, whet · **To what, where:** Joshua, Makkedah, tongue

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This is Joshua 10:21 · 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 (people, none), 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:243
# text = that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace; none whetted his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Makkedah	Makkedah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
17	whetted	whet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | all people |  | Joshua | Makkedah |  | to the camp; in peace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial\_Location to joshua=Destination |
| 2 | **whet** | past | none | Joshua's tongue |  |  |  | against any | 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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וַיָּשֻׁבוּ֩ כָל־הָעָ֨ם אֶל־הַמַּחֲנֶ֧ה אֶל־יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ מַקֵּדָ֖ה בְּשָׁל֑וֹם לֹֽא־חָרַ֞ץ לִבְנֵ֧י יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל לְאִ֖ישׁ אֶת־לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃

[Joshua 10:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.10.21/)

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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:243` 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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