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title: Joshua 21:27 (JPS 1917) — And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, ou… · tree and pragmatics
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# Joshua 21:27 · JPS 1917

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And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Beeshterah with the open land about it; two cities.

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**Who acts:** families · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Golan, half tribe

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This is Joshua 21:27 · 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 (families), 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:578
# text = And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Beeshterah with the open land about it; two cities.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Gershon	Gershon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Levites	Levites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	Golan	Golan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Bashan	Bashan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	manslayer	manslayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Beeshterah	Beeshterah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
49	about	about	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nmod	_	_
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
52	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	appos	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **give** | past | families *= family* | Golan |  | the half tribe of Manasseh |  | unto the children of Gershon of the families of the Levites; in Bashan; with the open land about land | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent golan=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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וְלִבְנֵ֣י גֵרְשׁוֹן֮ מִמִּשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת הַלְוִיִּם֒ מֵחֲצִ֞י מַטֵּ֣ה מְנַשֶּׁ֗ה אֶת־עִיר֙ מִקְלַ֣ט הָרֹצֵ֔חַ אֶת־גּוֹלָ֤ן בַּבָּשָׁן֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶֽת־בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָ֖ה וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ עָרִ֖ים שְׁתָּֽיִם׃ס

[Joshua 21:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.27/)

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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:578` 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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