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title: Joshua 15:15 (JPS 1917) — And he went up thence against the inhabitants of Debir — now the nam… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he went up thence against the inhabitants of Debir — now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher. Who acts: Caleb, name. Joshua 15:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 15:15 · JPS 1917

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And he went up thence against the inhabitants of Debir — now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher.

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**Who acts:** Caleb, name · **What happens:** go up, be, name · **To what, where:** Kiriath sepher, Debir

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This is Joshua 15:15 · 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 (Caleb, name), 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:381
# text = And he went up thence against the inhabitants of Debir — now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Debir	Debir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Debir	Debir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	beforetime	beforetime	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	Kiriath	Kiriath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	sepher	sepher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **go up** | past | Caleb |  |  |  |  | against the inhabitants of Debir; thence *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the name of Debir | Kiriath sepher |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | Debir |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיַּ֣עַל מִשָּׁ֔ם אֶל־יֹשְׁבֵ֖י דְּבִ֑ר וְשֵׁם־דְּבִ֥ר לְפָנִ֖ים קִרְיַת־סֵֽפֶרקִרְיַת־סֵֽפֶר׃

[Joshua 15:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.15/)

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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:381` 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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