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title: Numbers 31:48 (JPS 1917) — And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the capta… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses; Who acts: officers. Numbers 31:48 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 31:48 · JPS 1917

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And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses;

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**Who acts:** officers · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** thousands

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This is Numbers 31:48 · 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 (officers), 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:1142
# text = And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	near	near	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	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** | past | the officers and the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds |  |  | the thousands |  | of the host | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the officers and the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds |  |  |  |  | unto Moses; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַֽיִּקְרְבוּ֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה הַפְּקֻדִ֕ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר לְאַלְפֵ֣י הַצָּבָ֑א שָׂרֵ֥י הָאֲלָפִ֖ים וְשָׂרֵ֥י הַמֵּאֽוֹת׃

[Numbers 31:48: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.48/)

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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:1142` 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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