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title: Joshua 14:15 (JPS 1917) — Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba, which Arba was t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. Who acts: name, Arba. Joshua 14:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 14:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.

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**Who acts:** name, Arba · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** Kiriath, greatest man, Hebron

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This is Joshua 14:15 · 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 (name, Arba), 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:363
# text = Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hebron	Hebron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	beforetime	beforetime	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Kiriath	Kiriath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	arba	arba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
13	Arba	Arba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Anakim	Anakim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 name of Hebron | Kiriath |  |  | now | beforetime *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Arba | the greatest man |  |  |  | among the Anakim | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | Hebron |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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וְשֵׁ֨ם חֶבְר֤וֹן לְפָנִים֙ קִרְיַ֣ת אַרְבַּ֔ע קִרְיַ֣ת אַרְבַּ֔ע הָאָדָ֧ם הַגָּד֛וֹל בָּעֲנָקִ֖ים ה֑וּא וְהָאָ֥רֶץ שָׁקְטָ֖ה מִמִּלְחָמָֽה׃פ

[Joshua 14:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.14.15/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.**
2. [And the land had rest from war.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.364/)

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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:363` 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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