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title: Joshua 3:4 (JPS 1917) — Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cu… · tree and pragmatics
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# Joshua 3:4 · JPS 1917

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Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.'

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**Who acts:** space, ye · **What happens:** be, not come, know, go, not pass · **To what, where:** way

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This is Joshua 3:4 · 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 (space, ye), 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:46
# text = Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.'
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
21	near	near	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
33	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
42	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
43	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	heretofore	heretofore	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **be** | shall | a space |  |  | there |  | between you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between you=Location |
| 2 | **not** **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto covenant; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | may | ye | the way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | must | ye |  |  |  |  | by the way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by which=Location |
| 5 | **not** **pass** | present · perfect | ye | this way |  |  |  | heretofore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |

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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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אַ֣ךְ ׀ רָח֣וֹק יִהְיֶ֗ה בֵּֽינֵיכֶם֙ וּבֵינָ֔יו כְּאַלְפַּ֥יִם אַמָּ֖ה בַּמִּדָּ֑ה אַֽל־תִּקְרְב֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו לְמַ֤עַן אֲשֶׁר־תֵּֽדְעוּ֙ אֶת־הַדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֵּֽלְכוּ־בָ֔הּ כִּ֣י לֹ֧א עֲבַרְתֶּ֛ם בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ מִתְּמ֥וֹל שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃ס

[Joshua 3:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.3.4/)

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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:46` 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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