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title: Joshua 16:8 (JPS 1917) — From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; a… · tree and pragmatics
description: From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. Who acts: border, goings. Joshua 16:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 16:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.

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**Who acts:** border, goings · **What happens:** go, be · **To what, where:** Tappuah, sea

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This is Joshua 16:8 · 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 (border, goings), 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:437
# text = From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Tappuah	Tappuah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Kanah	Kanah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	goings	going	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | past | the border |  |  | Tappuah |  | along the brook of Kanah; westward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tappuah=Initial\_Location along brook=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the goings |  |  | the sea |  |  | 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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מִתַּפּ֜וּחַ יֵלֵ֨ךְ הַגְּב֥וּל יָ֙מָּה֙ נַ֣חַל קָנָ֔ה וְהָי֥וּ תֹצְאֹתָ֖יו הַיָּ֑מָּה זֹ֗את נַחֲלַ֛ת מַטֵּ֥ה בְנֵי־אֶפְרַ֖יִם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃

[Joshua 16:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.**
2. [This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.438/)

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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:437` 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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