--- title: Joshua 5:15 (JPS 1917) — And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua: 'Put off thy sh… · tree and pragmatics description: And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua: 'Put off thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy.' And Joshua did so. Who acts: captain, thou, Joshua. 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And Joshua did so. **Who acts:** captain, thou, Joshua · **What happens:** say, put off, stand, be, do · **To what, where:** shoe, foot · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Joshua 5:15 · 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 (captain, thou, 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:98 # text = And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua: 'Put off thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy.' And Joshua did so. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 'S 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Joshua Joshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 off off ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 26 whereon whereon ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 28 standest stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 33 And and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 Joshua Joshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the captain of the LORD's host | | | | | unto Joshua | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **put off** | infinitive | | thy shoe | | thy foot | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoe=Goal | | 3 | **stand** | present | thou | | | | | whereon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | for the place; holy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | past | Joshua | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וַיֹּאמֶר֩ שַׂר־צְבָ֨א יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־יְהוֹשֻׁ֗עַ שַׁל־נַֽעַלְךָ֙ מֵעַ֣ל רַגְלֶ֔ךָ כִּ֣י הַמָּק֗וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתָּ֛ה עֹמֵ֥ד עָלָ֖יו קֹ֣דֶשׁ ה֑וּא וַיַּ֥עַשׂ יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ כֵּֽן׃ [Joshua 5:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.5.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOS:98` 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 5:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.97/) - next →: [Joshua 6:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.99/) - ↑ back to [Joshua 5:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.5.15/)