--- title: Joshua 17:17 (JPS 1917) — And Joshua spoke unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Ma… · tree and pragmatics description: And Joshua spoke unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying: 'Thou art a great people, and hast great power; thou shalt not have one lot only; Who acts: Joshua, thou. 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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), 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:458 # text = And Joshua spoke unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying: 'Thou art a great people, and hast great power; thou shalt not have one lot only; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Joshua Joshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Ephraim Ephraim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Manasseh Manasseh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 20 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 21 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Sing 17 ccomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 hast have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 31 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nsubj _ _ 32 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Joshua | | Ephraim and Manasseh | | | unto the house of Joseph | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ephraim=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Joshua *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a great people | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | Joshua *not said here* | great power | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | | 5 | **not** **have** | shall | thou | one lot | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית יוֹסֵ֔ף לְאֶפְרַ֥יִם וְלִמְנַשֶּׁ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר עַם־רַ֣ב אַתָּ֗ה וְכֹ֤חַ גָּדוֹל֙ לָ֔ךְ לֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֖ גּוֹרָ֥ל אֶחָֽד׃ [Joshua 17:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.17.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:458` 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 17:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.457/) - next →: [Joshua 17:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.459/) - ↑ back to [Joshua 17:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.17.17/)