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title: Joshua 11:6 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Be not afraid because of them; for t… · tree and pragmatics
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# Joshua 11:6 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Be not afraid because of them; for to-morrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel; thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, I, thou · **What happens:** say, not be, deliver up, slain, hough, burn · **To what, where:** country, horses, chariots · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Joshua 11:6 · 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 (LORD, I, thou), 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:271
# text = And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Be not afraid because of them; for to-morrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel; thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
12	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	slain	slain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
30	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj	_	_
34	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	hough	hough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	chariots	chariot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Joshua | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | because country; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deliver up** | future | I | country |  |  | time | to morrow | tree rules |
| 4 | **slain** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  | before Israel |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hough** | shall | thou | country's horses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **burn** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | country's chariots |  |  |  | with fire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient with fire=Instrument |

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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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֣ה אֶל־יְהוֹשֻׁעַ֮ אַל־תִּירָ֣א מִפְּנֵיהֶם֒ כִּֽי־מָחָ֞ר כָּעֵ֣ת הַזֹּ֗את אָנֹכִ֞י נֹתֵ֧ן אֶת־כֻּלָּ֛ם חֲלָלִ֖ים לִפְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֶת־סוּסֵיהֶ֣ם תְּעַקֵּ֔ר וְאֶת־מַרְכְּבֹתֵיהֶ֖ם תִּשְׂרֹ֥ף בָּאֵֽשׁ׃

[Joshua 11:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.11.6/)

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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:271` 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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