--- title: Joshua 24:14 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth… · tree and pragmatics description: Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. Who acts: you, fathers, 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 (you, fathers, 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:661 # text = Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 sincerity sincerity NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 away away ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 obj _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 35 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nsubj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** | imperative | you *not said here* | the LORD | | | now | therefore *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | | 2 | **serve** | infinitive | you *not said here* | LORD | | sincerity and truth | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in sincerity=Location | | 3 | **put away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | the gods | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent god=Goal | | 4 | **serve** | past | your fathers | the gods | | | | beyond the River and Egypt | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Attribute | | 5 | **serve** | infinitive | ye | the LORD | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Attribute | 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} וְעַתָּ֞ה יְר֧אוּ אֶת־יְהוָ֛ה וְעִבְד֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ בְּתָמִ֣ים וּבֶֽאֱמֶ֑ת וְהָסִ֣ירוּ אֶת־אֱלֹהִ֗ים אֲשֶׁר֩ עָבְד֨וּ אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֜ם בְּעֵ֤בֶר הַנָּהָר֙ וּבְמִצְרַ֔יִם וְעִבְד֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃ [Joshua 24:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.24.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:661` 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 24:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.660/) - next →: [Joshua 24:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.662/) - ↑ back to [Joshua 24:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.24.14/)