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title: Joshua 22:26 (JPS 1917) — Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; Who acts: we, us. Joshua 22:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 22:26 · JPS 1917

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Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice;

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**Who acts:** we, us · **What happens:** say, let, prepare, build, burn · **To what, where:** us, altar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Joshua 22:26 · 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 (we, us), 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:623
# text = Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice;
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | we |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prepare** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **build** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | a altar | us |  |  | for burnt offering nor sacrifice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary altar=Product for offering=Asset |
| 5 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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וַנֹּ֕אמֶר נַעֲשֶׂה־נָּ֣א לָ֔נוּ לִבְנ֖וֹת אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ לֹ֥א לְעוֹלָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א לְזָֽבַח׃

[Joshua 22:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.22.26/)

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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:623` 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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