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# Joshua 17:15 · JPS 1917

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And Joshua said unto them: 'If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.'

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**Who acts:** Joshua, thou, hill country · **What happens:** say, be, get up, cut down · **To what, where:** great people, thee, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Joshua 17:15 · 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 (Joshua, thou, hill country), 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:456
# text = And Joshua said unto them: 'If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
8	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	23	obl	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Perizzites	Perizzite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Rephaim	Rephaim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
39	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	_
43	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	too	too	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	48	obl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
52	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joshua |  |  |  |  | unto children *= child* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | a great people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get up** | infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  | to the forest | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cut down** | infinitive |  |  |  | the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim; there |  | for thyself | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for thyself=Asset |
| 5 | **is** | present | the hill country of Ephraim |  |  |  |  | for thee; narrow *property* | 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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם יְהוֹשֻׁ֗עַ אִם־עַם־רַ֤ב אַתָּה֙ עֲלֵ֣ה לְךָ֣ הַיַּ֔עְרָה וּבֵרֵאתָ֤ לְךָ֙ שָׁ֔ם בְּאֶ֥רֶץ הַפְּרִזִּ֖י וְהָֽרְפָאִ֑ים כִּֽי־אָ֥ץ לְךָ֖ הַר־אֶפְרָֽיִם׃

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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:456` 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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