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title: Numbers 31:23 (JPS 1917) — every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the… · tree and pragmatics
description: every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sprinkling; and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through the water. Who acts: thing, ye, fire, all. Numbers 31:23 in JPS 1917 with it
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# Numbers 31:23 · JPS 1917

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every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sprinkling; and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through the water.

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**Who acts:** thing, ye, fire, all · **What happens:** abide, make, go, be, purify, not abide · **To what, where:** fire, thing, water

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This is Numbers 31:23 · 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 (thing, ye, fire, all), 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:1117
# text = every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sprinkling; and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through the water.
1	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	purified	purify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	sprinkling	sprinkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	nsubj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	abideth	abide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	44	nsubj	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	through	through	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **abide** | may | every thing | the fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | shall | ye | every thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | every thing *not said here* |  |  | the fire |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through fire=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | shall | fire |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **purify** | shall · passive |  | fire |  |  |  | with the water of sprinkling; nevertheless *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 6 | **not** **abide** | present |  | the fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | shall | all |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **go** | to-infinitive | all *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through water=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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כָּל־דָּבָ֞ר אֲשֶׁר־יָבֹ֣א בָאֵ֗שׁ תַּעֲבִ֤ירוּ בָאֵשׁ֙ וְטָהֵ֔ר אַ֕ךְ בְּמֵ֥י נִדָּ֖ה יִתְחַטָּ֑א וְכֹ֨ל אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יָבֹ֛א בָּאֵ֖שׁ תַּעֲבִ֥ירוּ בַמָּֽיִם׃

[Numbers 31:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.23/)

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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:1117` of Mova's parse database.

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