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title: Joshua 17:7 (JPS 1917) — And the border of Manasseh was, beginning from Asher, Michmethath, w… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the border of Manasseh was, beginning from Asher, Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah. — Who acts: border, Michmethath. Joshua 17:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 17:7 · JPS 1917

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And the border of Manasseh was, beginning from Asher, Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah. —

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**Who acts:** border, Michmethath · **What happens:** begin, be, go along · **To what, where:** Asher, Michmethath, right hand

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This is Joshua 17:7 · 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 (border, Michmethath), 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:448
# text = And the border of Manasseh was, beginning from Asher, Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah. —
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Asher	Asher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Michmethath	Michmethath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	along	along	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	_
35	tappuah	tappuah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
37	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	12	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 | **begin** | gerund | the border of Manasseh *not said here* |  |  | Asher |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the border of Manasseh | Michmethath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Michmethath |  |  |  | before Shechem |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go along** | past | the border |  |  | the right hand |  | unto the inhabitants of En tappuah; along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hand=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיְהִ֤י גְבוּל־מְנַשֶּׁה֙ מֵֽאָשֵׁ֔ר הַֽמִּכְמְתָ֔ת אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֣י שְׁכֶ֑ם וְהָלַ֤ךְ הַגְּבוּל֙ אֶל־הַיָּמִ֔ין אֶל־יֹשְׁבֵ֖י עֵ֥ינ תַּפּֽוּחַ עֵ֥ינ תַּפּֽוּחַ׃

[Joshua 17:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.17.7/)

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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:448` 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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