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title: Numbers 31:36 (JPS 1917) — And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep. Who acts: half. Numbers 31:36 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 31:36 · JPS 1917

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And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep.

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**Who acts:** half · **What happens:** be, go out · **To what, where:** portion, number

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This is Numbers 31:36 · 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 (half), 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:1130
# text = And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	compound	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	_
28	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	compound	_	_
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **is a** | past | the half | the portion |  |  |  | of women *= woman* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to war; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the half |  |  | number and three thousand hundred sheep |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַתְּהִי֙ הַֽמֶּחֱצָ֔ה חֵ֕לֶק הַיֹּצְאִ֖ים בַּצָּבָ֑א מִסְפַּ֣ר הַצֹּ֗אן שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֙לֶף֙ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים אֶ֔לֶף וְשִׁבְעַ֥ת אֲלָפִ֖ים וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃

[Numbers 31:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.36/)

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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:1130` 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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