---
title: Joshua 22:11 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Israel heard say: 'Behold, the children of Reube… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the children of Israel heard say: 'Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.' Who acts: children, side. J
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.608/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Joshua](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS/) / [chapter 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS/22/) / [22:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.22.11/) / JPS 1

# Joshua 22:11 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And the children of Israel heard say: 'Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.'

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** children, side · **What happens:** hear, say, build, pertain · **To what, where:** altar, forefront · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Joshua 22:11 · 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, side), 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:608
# text = And the children of Israel heard say: 'Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.'
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	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
10	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Gad	Gad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	forefront	forefront	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
44	about	about	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
52	pertaineth	pertain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
59	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the children of Israel |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **build** | present · perfect | the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh | a altar |  | the forefront of the land of Canaan |  | in the region about the Jordan on the side | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Product |
| 4 | **pertain** | present | the side |  |  |  |  | to the children of Israel | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to child=Co-Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וַיִּשְׁמְע֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֣ה בָנ֣וּ בְנֵֽי־רְאוּבֵ֣ן וּבְנֵי־גָ֡ד וַחֲצִי֩ שֵׁ֨בֶט הַֽמְנַשֶּׁ֜ה אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֗חַ אֶל־מוּל֙ אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן אֶל־גְּלִילוֹת֙ הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן אֶל־עֵ֖בֶר בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Joshua 22:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.22.11/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:608` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Joshua 22:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.607/)
- next →: [Joshua 22:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.609/)
- ↑ back to [Joshua 22:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.22.11/)