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title: Joshua 15:12 (JPS 1917) — And as for the west border, the Great Sea was the border thereof. · tree and pragmatics
description: And as for the west border, the Great Sea was the border thereof. Who acts: Great Sea. Joshua 15:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 15:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And as for the west border, the Great Sea was the border thereof.

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

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This is Joshua 15:12 · 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 (Great Sea), 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:377
# text = And as for the west border, the Great Sea was the border thereof.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- 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 Great Sea | the border |  |  |  | as the west border; thereof *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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וּגְב֣וּל יָ֔ם הַיָּ֥מָּה הַגָּד֖וֹל וּגְב֑וּל זֶ֠ה גְּב֧וּל בְּנֵֽי־יְהוּדָ֛ה סָבִ֖יב לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃

[Joshua 15:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And as for the west border, the Great Sea was the border thereof.**
2. [This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.378/)

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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:377` 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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