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title: Numbers 31:43 (JPS 1917) — now the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty th… · tree and pragmatics
description: now the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep, Who acts: half. Numbers 31:43 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 31:43 · JPS 1917

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now the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,

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**Who acts:** half · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** thousand sheep

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This is Numbers 31:43 · 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:1137
# text = now the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
1	now	now	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
19	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
20	,	,	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 congregation's half | thousand sheep |  |  | now |  | 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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וַתְּהִ֛י מֶחֱצַ֥ת הָעֵדָ֖ה מִן־הַצֹּ֑אן שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֙לֶף֙ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים אֶ֔לֶף שִׁבְעַ֥ת אֲלָפִ֖ים וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃

[Numbers 31:43: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.43/)

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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:1137` 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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