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title: Joshua 21:1 (JPS 1917) — Then came near the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites unto Elea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came near the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel; Who acts: heads. Joshua 21:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 21:1 · JPS 1917

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Then came near the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel;

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**Who acts:** heads · **What happens:** come

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This is Joshua 21:1 · 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 (heads), 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:552
# text = Then came near the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel;
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	near	near	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Levites	Levites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Eleazar	Eleazar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Nun	Nun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come** | past | the heads of fathers's houses of the Levites |  |  |  | then | unto Eleazar and Joshua and the heads of fathers's houses of the tribes of the children of Israel; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַֽיִּגְּשׁ֗וּ רָאשֵׁי֙ אֲב֣וֹת הַלְוִיִּ֔ם אֶל־אֶלְעָזָר֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְאֶל־יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ בִּן־נ֑וּן וְאֶל־רָאשֵׁ֛י אֲב֥וֹת הַמַּטּ֖וֹת לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Joshua 21:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.1/)

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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:552` 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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