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title: Joshua 2:10 (JPS 1917) — For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea bef… · tree and pragmatics
description: For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. Who acts: we, LORD, ye, two kings. Joshua 2:10 in JPS 1917 with it
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# Joshua 2:10 · JPS 1917

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For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

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**Who acts:** we, LORD, ye, two kings · **What happens:** hear, dry up, come out, do, be, destroy · **To what, where:** water, Egypt, Sihon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Joshua 2:10 · 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 (we, LORD, ye, two kings), 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:28
# text = For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
28	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Amorites	amorite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	acl:relcl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Sihon	Sihon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Og	Og	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	53	obj	_	_
51	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	53	nsubj	_	_
52	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
54	.	.	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 | **hear** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dry up** | past | the LORD | the water of the Red Sea |  |  | before you |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result |
| 3 | **come out** | past | ye | Egypt |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient egypt=Result |
| 4 | **do** | past | ye |  |  |  |  | unto the two kings of the Amorites; unto Sihon and Og | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | past | the two kings of the Amorites |  |  |  |  | beyond the Jordan | tree rules |
| 6 | **destroy** | past | ye | Sihon and Og |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |

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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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כִּ֣י שָׁמַ֗עְנוּ אֵ֠ת אֲשֶׁר־הוֹבִ֨ישׁ יְהוָ֜ה אֶת־מֵ֤י יַם־סוּף֙ מִפְּנֵיכֶ֔ם בְּצֵאתְכֶ֖ם מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר עֲשִׂיתֶ֡ם לִשְׁנֵי֩ מַלְכֵ֨י הָאֱמֹרִ֜י אֲשֶׁ֨ר בְּעֵ֤בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן֙ לְסִיחֹ֣ן וּלְע֔וֹג אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶחֱרַמְתֶּ֖ם אוֹתָֽם׃

[Joshua 2:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.2.10/)

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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:28` 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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