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title: Numbers 31:37 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen. Who acts: tribute. Numbers 31:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 31:37 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

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**Who acts:** tribute · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** six hundred

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This is Numbers 31:37 · 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 (tribute), 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:1131
# text = And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	'S	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **is a** | past | the LORD's tribute of the sheep | six hundred |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיְהִ֛י הַמֶּ֥כֶס לַֽיהוָ֖ה מִן־הַצֹּ֑אן שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת חָמֵ֥שׁ וְשִׁבְעִֽים׃

[Numbers 31:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.37/)

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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:1131` 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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