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title: Numbers 31:38 (JPS 1917) — And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tri… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve. Who acts: beeves, tribute. Numbers 31:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 31:38 · JPS 1917

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And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.

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**Who acts:** beeves, tribute · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** thirty thousand, threescore

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This is Numbers 31:38 · 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 (beeves, 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:1132
# text = And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beeves	beef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	'S	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 beeves | thirty thousand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the LORD's tribute | threescore |  |  |  |  | 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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וְהַ֨בָּקָ֔ר שִׁשָּׁ֥ה וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים אָ֑לֶף וּמִכְסָ֥ם לַיהוָ֖ה שְׁנַ֥יִם וְשִׁבְעִֽים׃

[Numbers 31:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.38/)

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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:1132` 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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