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title: Joshua 24:20 (JPS 1917) — If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then He will turn an… · tree and pragmatics
description: If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that He hath done you good.' Who acts: ye, LORD. Joshua 24:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 24:20 · JPS 1917

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If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that He hath done you good.'

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**Who acts:** ye, LORD · **What happens:** forsake, serve, turn, do, consume · **To what, where:** LORD, strange gods, evil, you, good

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This is Joshua 24:20 · 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 (ye, LORD), 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:667
# text = If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that He hath done you good.'
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forsake	forsake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
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	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye | the LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | present | ye *not said here* | strange gods |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute |
| 3 | **turn** | future | LORD |  |  |  | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | evil | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **consume** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset |
| 6 | **do** | present · perfect | LORD | good | you |  |  |  | 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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כִּ֤י תַֽעַזְבוּ֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖ם אֱלֹהֵ֣י נֵכָ֑ר וְשָׁ֨ב וְהֵרַ֤ע לָכֶם֙ וְכִלָּ֣ה אֶתְכֶ֔ם אַחֲרֵ֖י אֲשֶׁר־הֵיטִ֥יב לָכֶֽם׃

[Joshua 24:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.24.20/)

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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:667` 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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