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title: Joshua 24:30 (JPS 1917) — And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-sera… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. Who acts: things, Timnath serah, Joshua. Joshua 24:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joshua 24:30 · JPS 1917

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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

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**Who acts:** things, Timnath serah, Joshua · **What happens:** bury, be, inherit · **To what, where:** Joshua, border, hill country

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This is Joshua 24:30 · 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 (things, Timnath serah, Joshua), 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:677
# text = And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Timnath	Timnath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	serah	serah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Gaash	Gaash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past | things *= thing* | Joshua |  | the border of Joshua's inheritance |  | in Timnath serah | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in border=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | Timnath serah |  |  | the hill country |  | of Ephraim; on the north of the mountain of Gaash | tree rules |
| 3 | **inherit** |  | Joshua |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=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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וַיִּקְבְּר֤וּ אֹתוֹ֙ בִּגְב֣וּל נַחֲלָת֔וֹ בְּתִמְנַת־סֶ֖רַחתִמְנַת־סֶ֖רַח אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּהַר־אֶפְרָ֑יִם מִצְּפ֖וֹן לְהַר־גָּֽעַשׁ׃

[Joshua 24:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.24.30/)

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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:677` 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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