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title: Numbers 31:2 (JPS 1917) — 'Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward shalt th… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.' Who acts: you. Numbers 31:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 31:2 · JPS 1917

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'Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** avenge, gather · **To what, where:** children, thou

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This is Numbers 31:2 · 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 (you), 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:NUM:1096
# text = 'Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Midianites	Midianite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avenge** | imperative | you *not said here* | the children of Israel |  |  |  | of the Midianites | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather** | shall · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | unto thy people; afterward *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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נְקֹ֗ם נִקְמַת֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מֵאֵ֖ת הַמִּדְיָנִ֑ים אַחַ֖ר תֵּאָסֵ֥ף אֶל־עַמֶּֽיךָ׃

[Numbers 31:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:1096` 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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