--- title: Joshua 23:6 (JPS 1917) — Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; Who acts: ye. 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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 (ye), 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:637 # text = Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 courageous courageous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 csubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 obj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 26 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 28 aside aside ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 therefrom therefrom ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request, form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | infinitive | ye | | | | | courageous, therefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | | all | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | | 4 | **write** | present · passive | | | | the book of the law of Moses | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination | | 5 | **not** **turn** | present | ye | | | the right hand or the left | | aside, therefrom *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hand=Trajectory | 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} וַחֲזַקְתֶּ֣ם מְאֹ֔ד לִשְׁמֹ֣ר וְלַעֲשׂ֔וֹת אֵ֚ת כָּל־הַכָּת֔וּב בְּסֵ֖פֶר תּוֹרַ֣ת מֹשֶׁ֑ה לְבִלְתִּ֥י סוּר־מִמֶּ֖נּוּ יָמִ֥ין וּשְׂמֹֽאול׃ [Joshua 23:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.23.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:637` 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 23:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.636/) - next →: [Joshua 23:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.638/) - ↑ back to [Joshua 23:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.23.6/)