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title: Joshua 2:12 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have d… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house — and give me a true token — Who acts: I, ye. Joshua 2:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 2:12 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house — and give me a true token —

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**Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** pray, swear, deal, give · **To what, where:** you, true token, me

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This is Joshua 2:12 · 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 (I, ye), 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:30
# text = Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house — and give me a true token —
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
19	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
28	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | I | you |  |  | now | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swear** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto me; by the LORD | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **deal** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | with you; kindly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with you=Theme |
| 4 | **deal** | future | ye |  |  |  |  | with my father's house; kindly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with house=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | a true token | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient token=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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וְעַתָּ֗ה הִשָּֽׁבְעוּ־נָ֥א לִי֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה כִּי־עָשִׂ֥יתִי עִמָּכֶ֖ם חָ֑סֶד וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֨ם גַּם־אַתֶּ֜ם עִם־בֵּ֤ית אָבִי֙ חֶ֔סֶד וּנְתַתֶּ֥ם לִ֖י א֥וֹת אֱמֶֽת׃

[Joshua 2:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.2.12/)

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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:30` 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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