--- title: Joshua 21:6 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tr… · tree and pragmatics description: And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. Who acts: children. 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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 (children), 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:557 # text = And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Gershon Gershon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Issachar Issachar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Asher Asher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Naphtali Naphtali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 out out ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 41 compound _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Manasseh Manasseh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 Bashan Bashan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 thirteen thirteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 48 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the children of Gershon | thirteen cities | | the families of the tribe of Issachar and the tribe of Asher and the tribe of Naphtali and the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan | | by lot | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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} וְלִבְנֵ֣י גֵרְשׁ֗וֹן מִמִּשְׁפְּח֣וֹת מַטֵּֽה־יִשָּׂשכָ֣ר וּמִמַּטֵּֽה־אָ֠שֵׁר וּמִמַּטֵּ֨ה נַפְתָּלִ֜י וּ֠מֵחֲצִי מַטֵּ֨ה מְנַשֶּׁ֤ה בַבָּשָׁן֙ בַּגּוֹרָ֔ל עָרִ֖ים שְׁלֹ֥שׁ עֶשְׂרֵֽה׃ס [Joshua 21:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:557` 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 21:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.556/) - next →: [Joshua 21:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.558/) - ↑ back to [Joshua 21:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.6/)