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title: Numbers 32:15 (JPS 1917) — For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in… · tree and pragmatics
description: For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will destroy all this people.' Who acts: ye, LORD. Numbers 32:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 32:15 · JPS 1917

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For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will destroy all this people.'

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**Who acts:** ye, LORD · **What happens:** turn away, leave, destroy · **To what, where:** fathers, wilderness, people

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This is Numbers 32:15 · 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 (ye, LORD), 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:1163
# text = For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will destroy all this people.'
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **turn away** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye |  |  |  |  | from LORD; away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source |
| 2 | **leave** | future | LORD | fathers *= father* |  | the wilderness | again |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in wilderness=Location |
| 3 | **destroy** | future | ye | all people |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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כִּ֤י תְשׁוּבֻן֙ מֵֽאַחֲרָ֔יו וְיָסַ֣ף ע֔וֹד לְהַנִּיח֖וֹ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וְשִֽׁחַתֶּ֖ם לְכָל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃ס

[Numbers 32:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.15/)

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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:1163` 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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