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title: Joshua 21:10 (JPS 1917) — And they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Koha… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. Who acts: children, Kohathites. Joshua 21:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 21:10 · JPS 1917

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And they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.

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**Who acts:** children, Kohathites · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** first lot

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This is Joshua 21:10 · 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 (children, Kohathites), 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:561
# text = And they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
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	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Kohathites	Kohathite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	theirs	theirs	PRON	PRP	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | for the children; of Aaron; of the families of the Kohathites | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Kohathites |  |  |  |  | of the children; of Levi | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | children's first lot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַֽיְהִי֙ לִבְנֵ֣י אַהֲרֹ֔ן מִמִּשְׁפְּח֥וֹת הַקְּהָתִ֖י מִבְּנֵ֣י לֵוִ֑י כִּ֥י לָהֶ֛ם הָיָ֥ה הַגּוֹרָ֖ל רִיאשֹׁנָֽה׃

[Joshua 21:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.10/)

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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:561` 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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