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title: Joshua 24:18 (JPS 1917) — and the LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amor… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt in the land; therefore we also will serve the LORD; for He is our God.' Who acts: LORD, Amorites, we. Joshua 24:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 24:18 · JPS 1917

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and the LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt in the land; therefore we also will serve the LORD; for He is our God.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, Amorites, we · **What happens:** drive out, dwell, serve, be · **To what, where:** peoples, land, LORD, God

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This is Joshua 24:18 · 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 (LORD, Amorites, we), 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:665
# text = and the LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt in the land; therefore we also will serve the LORD; for He is our God.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Amorites	amorite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	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 | **drive out** | past | the LORD | all peoples |  |  |  | from us | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme from we=Trajectory |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | the Amorites |  |  | the land |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 3 | **serve** | future | we | the LORD |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | present | LORD | our God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיְגָ֨רֶשׁ יְהוָ֜ה אֶת־כָּל־הָעַמִּ֗ים וְאֶת־הָאֱמֹרִ֛י יֹשֵׁ֥ב הָאָ֖רֶץ מִפָּנֵ֑ינוּ גַּם־אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ נַעֲבֹ֣ד אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה כִּי־ה֖וּא אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ס

[Joshua 24:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.24.18/)

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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:665` 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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