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title: Joshua 11:13 (JPS 1917) — But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only — that did Joshua burn. Who acts: cities, Israel, Joshua. Joshua 11:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 11:13 · JPS 1917

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But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only — that did Joshua burn.

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**Who acts:** cities, Israel, Joshua · **What happens:** stand, burn · **To what, where:** mounds, none, that

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This is Joshua 11:13 · 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 (cities, Israel, Joshua), 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:278
# text = But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only — that did Joshua burn.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	save	save	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Hazor	Hazor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **stand** | past | the cities |  |  | cities's mounds |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mound=Location |
| 2 | **burn** | past | Israel | none |  |  |  | as the cities; save Hazor | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent none=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | past · do-support | Joshua | that |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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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רַ֣ק כָּל־הֶעָרִ֗ים הָעֹֽמְדוֹת֙ עַל־תִּלָּ֔ם לֹ֥א שְׂרָפָ֖ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל זוּלָתִ֛י אֶת־חָצ֥וֹר לְבַדָּ֖הּ שָׂרַ֥ף יְהוֹשֻֽׁעַ׃

[Joshua 11:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.11.13/)

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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:278` 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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