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title: Joshua 3:5 (JPS 1917) — And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.' Who acts: Joshua, LORD. Joshua 3:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 3:5 · JPS 1917

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And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.'

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**Who acts:** Joshua, LORD · **What happens:** say, sanctify, do · **To what, where:** yourselves, wonders · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Joshua 3:5 · 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, LORD), 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:47
# text = And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.'
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	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Sanctify	sanctify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
20	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joshua |  |  |  |  | unto the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sanctify** | infinitive |  | yourselves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | future | the LORD | wonders |  |  |  | to morrow; among you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonder=Eventuality |

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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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וַיֹּ֧אמֶר יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ אֶל־הָעָ֖ם הִתְקַדָּ֑שׁוּ כִּ֣י מָחָ֗ר יַעֲשֶׂ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֖ם נִפְלָאֽוֹת׃

[Joshua 3:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.3.5/)

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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:47` 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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