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title: Joshua 2:20 (JPS 1917) — But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.' Who acts: thou, we, oath. Joshua 2:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 2:20 · JPS 1917

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But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.'

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**Who acts:** thou, we, oath · **What happens:** utter, be, make, swear · **To what, where:** business, oath

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This is Joshua 2:20 · 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: who acts (thou, we, oath), 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:38
# text = But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	utter	utter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	guiltless	guiltless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
19	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | our business |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent business=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | future | we |  |  |  | then | of thine oath; guiltless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | thou | thine oath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **swear** | to-infinitive | thine oath *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְאִם־תַּגִּ֖ידִי אֶת־דְּבָרֵ֣נוּ זֶ֑ה וְהָיִ֣ינוּ נְקִיִּ֔ם מִשְּׁבֻעָתֵ֖ךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִשְׁבַּעְתָּֽנוּ׃

[Joshua 2:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.2.20/)

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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:38` 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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