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title: Joshua 23:8 (JPS 1917) — but cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day; · tree and pragmatics
description: but cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day; Who acts: you, ye. Joshua 23:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 23:8 · JPS 1917

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but cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day;

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**Who acts:** you, ye · **What happens:** cleave, do

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This is Joshua 23:8 · 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 (you, 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:639
# text = but cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day;
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	cleave	cleave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **cleave** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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כִּ֛י אִם־בַּיהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם תִּדְבָּ֑קוּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עֲשִׂיתֶ֔ם עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

[Joshua 23:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.23.8/)

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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:639` 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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