--- title: Joshua 13:1 (JPS 1917) — Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and the LORD said unt… · tree and pragmatics description: Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him: 'Thou art old and well stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. Who acts: Joshua, LORD, Thou, much land. 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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 (Joshua, LORD, Thou, much land), 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:315 # text = Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him: 'Thou art old and well stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. 1 Now now ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 Joshua Joshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 stricken stricken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 unto unto ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 19 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 20 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 stricken stricken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 30 expl _ _ 30 remaineth remain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 31 yet yet ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 very very ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 possessed possess VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Joshua | | | | now; year | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Joshua *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD | | | | | unto Joshua | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | Thou | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | Thou *not said here* | | | | year | well *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **remain** | present | much land | | | there | yet | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **possess** | to-infinitive · passive | much land *not said here* | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP» | 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} וִיהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ זָקֵ֔ן בָּ֖א בַּיָּמִ֑ים וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלָ֗יו אַתָּ֤ה זָקַ֙נְתָּה֙ בָּ֣אתָ בַיָּמִ֔ים וְהָאָ֛רֶץ נִשְׁאֲרָ֥ה הַרְבֵּֽה־מְאֹ֖ד לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ [Joshua 13:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:315` 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. - ← previous: [Joshua 12:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.314/) - next →: [Joshua 13:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.316/) - ↑ back to [Joshua 13:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.1/)