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title: Joshua 1:6 (JPS 1917) — Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to i… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I swore unto their fathers to give them. Who acts: you, thou, people, I. Joshua 1:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 1:6 · JPS 1917

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Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I swore unto their fathers to give them.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, people, I · **What happens:** be, cause, inherit, swear, give · **To what, where:** people, land

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This is Joshua 1:6 · 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 (you, thou, people, I), 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:5
# text = Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I swore unto their fathers to give them.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	inherit	inherit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | shall | thou | this people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **inherit** | to-infinitive | this people *not said here* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 4 | **swear** | past | I | the land |  |  |  | unto people's fathers | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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חֲזַ֖ק וֶאֱמָ֑ץ כִּ֣י אַתָּ֗ה תַּנְחִיל֙ אֶת־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה אֶת־הָאָ֕רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי לַאֲבוֹתָ֖ם לָתֵ֥ת לָהֶֽם׃

[Joshua 1:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.1.6/)

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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:5` 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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