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title: Numbers 32:18 (JPS 1917) — We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel hav… · tree and pragmatics
description: We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. Who acts: We, children, Israel. Numbers 32:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 32:18 · JPS 1917

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We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

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**Who acts:** We, children, Israel · **What happens:** not return, inherit · **To what, where:** inheritance, man

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This is Numbers 32:18 · 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 (We, children, Israel), 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:1166
# text = We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	iobj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=promise, polarity=neg, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **return** | future | We |  |  |  |  | unto our houses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inherit** | present · perfect | the children of Israel | Israel's inheritance | every man |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **inherit** |  | Israel |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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לֹ֥א נָשׁ֖וּב אֶל־בָּתֵּ֑ינוּ עַ֗ד הִתְנַחֵל֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִ֖ישׁ נַחֲלָתֽוֹ׃

[Numbers 32:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.18/)

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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:1166` 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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