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title: Joshua 4:17 (JPS 1917) — Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying: 'Come ye up out of t… · tree and pragmatics
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# Joshua 4:17 · JPS 1917

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Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying: 'Come ye up out of the Jordan.'

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**Who acts:** Joshua · **What happens:** command, say, come up · **To what, where:** priests · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Joshua 4:17 · 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 (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:76
# text = Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying: 'Come ye up out of the Jordan.'
1	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	ye	ye	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RP	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | Joshua | the priests |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent priest=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Joshua *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of the Jordan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of jordan=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיְצַ֣ו יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ אֶת־הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים לֵאמֹ֑ר עֲל֖וּ מִן־הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

[Joshua 4:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.4.17/)

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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:76` 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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