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title: Numbers 32:4 (JPS 1917) — the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is… · tree and pragmatics
description: the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.' Who acts: LORD, land, servants. Numbers 32:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 32:4 · JPS 1917

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the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, land, servants · **What happens:** smote, be, have · **To what, where:** land, cattle

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This is Numbers 32:4 · 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 (LORD, land, servants), 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:1152
# text = the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	smote	smote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	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 | **smote** | past | the LORD | the land |  |  | before the congregation of Israel |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the land | a land |  |  |  | for cattle | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | thy servants | cattle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient |

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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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הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר הִכָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לִפְנֵי֙ עֲדַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶ֥רֶץ מִקְנֶ֖ה הִ֑וא וְלַֽעֲבָדֶ֖יךָ מִקְנֶֽה׃ס

[Numbers 32:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.4/)

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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:1152` 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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