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title: Joshua 24:32 (JPS 1917) — And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. Who acts: children, J
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# Joshua 24:32 · JPS 1917

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And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

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**Who acts:** children, Jacob · **What happens:** bring up, bury, buy, become, inherit · **To what, where:** bones, Egypt, Shechem, parcel, inheritance, children

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This is Joshua 24:32 · 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 (children, Jacob), 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:679
# text = And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
29	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Hamor	Hamor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **bring up** | past | the children of Israel | the bones of Joseph |  | Egypt |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 2 | **bury** | past | children *= child* | the bones of Joseph |  | Shechem |  | in the parcel of ground | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in shechem=Destination |
| 3 | **buy** | past | Jacob | the parcel of ground |  |  |  | of the sons of Hamor; for hundred pieces of money | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Theme for piece=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **become** | past | Jacob | the inheritance of the children of Joseph |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient inheritance=Result |
| 5 | **inherit** |  |  | the children of Joseph |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וְאֶת־עַצְמ֣וֹת י֠וֹסֵף אֲשֶׁר־הֶעֱל֨וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל ׀ מִמִּצְרַיִם֮ קָבְר֣וּ בִשְׁכֶם֒ בְּחֶלְקַ֣ת הַשָּׂדֶ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר קָנָ֧ה יַעֲקֹ֛ב מֵאֵ֛ת בְּנֵֽי־חֲמ֥וֹר אֲבִֽי־שְׁכֶ֖ם בְּמֵאָ֣ה קְשִׂיטָ֑ה וַיִּֽהְי֥וּ לִבְנֵֽי־יוֹסֵ֖ף לְנַחֲלָֽה׃

[Joshua 24:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.24.32/)

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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:679` of Mova's parse database.

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