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title: Joshua 13:23 (JPS 1917) — And as for the border of the children of Reuben, the Jordan was thei… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as for the border of the children of Reuben, the Jordan was their border. Who acts: Jordan. Joshua 13:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 13:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And as for the border of the children of Reuben, the Jordan was their border.

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**Who acts:** Jordan · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** border

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This is Joshua 13:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Jordan), 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:337
# text = And as for the border of the children of Reuben, the Jordan was their border.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **is a** | past | the Jordan | children's border |  |  |  | as the border of the children of Reuben | tree rules |

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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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וַיְהִ֗י גְּבוּל֙ בְּנֵ֣י רְאוּבֵ֔ן הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ן וּגְב֑וּל זֹ֣את נַחֲלַ֤ת בְּנֵֽי־רְאוּבֵן֙ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֔ם הֶעָרִ֖ים וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃פ

[Joshua 13:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.23/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And as for the border of the children of Reuben, the Jordan was their border.**
2. [This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.338/)

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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:337` 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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