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title: Numbers 31:18 (JPS 1917) — But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Who acts: women children, you. Numbers 31:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 31:18 · JPS 1917

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But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

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**Who acts:** women children, you · **What happens:** not know, lie, keep · **To what, where:** man

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This is Numbers 31:18 · 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 (women children, 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:1112
# text = But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	dislocated	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **not** **know** | present · perfect | all women children | man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | all women children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with LORD | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for yourselves; all women children *dislocated*; alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְכֹל֙ הַטַּ֣ף בַּנָּשִׁ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יָדְע֖וּ מִשְׁכַּ֣ב זָכָ֑ר הַחֲי֖וּ לָכֶֽם׃

[Numbers 31:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.18/)

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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:1112` 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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