--- title: Joshua 5:5 (JPS 1917) — For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the peopl… · tree and pragmatics description: For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, had not been circumcised. Who acts: people. 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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 (people), 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:88 # text = For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, had not been circumcised. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 out out ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 circumcised circumcise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 27 forth forth ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 circumcised circumcise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | all people | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **circumcise** | past · passive | | all people | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **bear** | past · passive | | all people | | the wilderness | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **come** | past | people | | | Egypt | | by the way; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out egypt=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **not** **circumcise** | past · perfect · passive | | all people | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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} כִּֽי־מֻלִ֣ים הָי֔וּ כָּל־הָעָ֖ם הַיֹּֽצְאִ֑ים וְכָל־הָ֠עָם הַיִּלֹּדִ֨ים בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר בַּדֶּ֛רֶךְ בְּצֵאתָ֥ם מִמִּצְרַ֖יִם לֹא־מָֽלוּ׃ [Joshua 5:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.5.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:88` 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. - ← previous: [Joshua 5:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.87/) - next →: [Joshua 5:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.89/) - ↑ back to [Joshua 5:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.5.5/)