--- title: Joshua 17:4 (JPS 1917) — And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the… · tree and pragmatics description: And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying: 'The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren'; therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.445/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Joshua](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS/) / [chapter 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS/17/) / [17:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.17.4/) / JPS 1 # Joshua 17:4 · JPS 1917 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying: 'The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren'; therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. **Who acts:** daughters, LORD · **What happens:** come, say, command, give · **To what, where:** Eleazar, Moses, inheritance, us, daughters, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Joshua 17:4 · 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 (daughters, LORD), 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:445 # text = And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying: 'The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren'; therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 near near ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Eleazar Eleazar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Joshua Joshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Nun Nun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 before before ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 29 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 among among ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 38 ' 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 40 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 41 according accord ADP IN ExtPos=SCONJ 44 case _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 41 fixed _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 50 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 iobj _ _ 51 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 53 among among ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nmod _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | daughters *= daughter* | | | Eleazar | before Joshua | near *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eleazar=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | | | | before the princes | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent moses=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | a inheritance | us | | | among our brethren | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient inheritance=Theme | | 5 | **give** | past | LORD | a inheritance | daughters *= daughter* | | | accord the commandment of the LORD; among the brethren of daughters's father; therefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient inheritance=Theme | | 6 | **command** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַתִּקְרַ֡בְנָה לִפְנֵי֩ אֶלְעָזָ֨ר הַכֹּהֵ֜ן וְלִפְנֵ֣י ׀ יְהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ בִּן־נ֗וּן וְלִפְנֵ֤י הַנְּשִׂיאִים֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יְהוָה֙ צִוָּ֣ה אֶת־מֹשֶׁ֔ה לָֽתֶת־לָ֥נוּ נַחֲלָ֖ה בְּת֣וֹךְ אַחֵ֑ינוּ וַיִּתֵּ֨ן לָהֶ֜ם אֶל־פִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ נַֽחֲלָ֔ה בְּת֖וֹךְ אֲחֵ֥י אֲבִיהֶֽן׃ [Joshua 17:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.17.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:445` 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. - ← previous: [Joshua 17:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.444/) - next →: [Joshua 17:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.446/) - ↑ back to [Joshua 17:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.17.4/)