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# Joshua 17:9 · JPS 1917

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And the border went down unto the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook, by cities which belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh; but the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook; and the goings out thereof were at the sea:

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**Who acts:** border, cities, goings · **What happens:** go down, belong, be · **To what, where:** Ephraim, north side, sea

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This is Joshua 17:9 · 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, cities, 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:450
# text = And the border went down unto the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook, by cities which belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh; but the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook; and the goings out thereof were at the sea:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kanah	Kanah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	southward	southward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	goings	going	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
46	out	out	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
52	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	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 down** | past | the border |  |  |  |  | unto the brook of Kanah; by cities; down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by city=Location |
| 2 | **belong** | past | cities |  | Ephraim |  |  | among the cities of Manasseh | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the border of Manasseh |  |  | the north side |  | of the brook | tree rules |
| 4 | **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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וְיָרַ֣ד הַגְּבוּל֩ נַ֨חַל קָנָ֜ה נֶ֣גְבָּה לַנַּ֗חַל עָרִ֤ים הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם בְּת֖וֹךְ עָרֵ֣י מְנַשֶּׁ֑ה וּגְב֤וּל מְנַשֶּׁה֙ מִצְּפ֣וֹן לַנַּ֔חַל וַיְהִ֥י תֹצְאֹתָ֖יו הַיָּֽמָּה׃

[Joshua 17:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.17.9/)

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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:450` 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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