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title: Joshua 15:9 (JPS 1917) — And the border was drawn from the top of the mountain unto the fount… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the border was drawn from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah — the same is Kiriath-jearim. Joshua 15:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 15:9 · JPS 1917

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And the border was drawn from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah — the same is Kiriath-jearim.

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**What happens:** draw, go out, be · **To what, where:** border, top, Baalah

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This is Joshua 15:9 · 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: 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:374
# text = And the border was drawn from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah — the same is Kiriath-jearim.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Nephtoah	Nephtoah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	Ephron	Ephron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Baalah	Baalah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
42	Kiriath	Kiriath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	_
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	_
44	jearim	jearim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: none
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · passive |  | the border |  | the top of the mountain |  | unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from top=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go out** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the cities of mount; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | past · passive |  | the border | Baalah |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to baalah=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | same *property* | 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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וְתָאַ֨ר הַגְּב֜וּל מֵרֹ֣אשׁ הָהָ֗ר אֶל־מַעְיַן֙ מֵ֣י נֶפְתּ֔וֹחַ וְיָצָ֖א אֶל־עָרֵ֣י הַר־עֶפְר֑וֹן וְתָאַ֤ר הַגְּבוּל֙ בַּעֲלָ֔ה הִ֖יא קִרְיַ֥ת יְעָרִֽים קִרְיַ֥ת יְעָרִֽים׃

[Joshua 15:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.9/)

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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:374` 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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