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title: Numbers 32:24 (JPS 1917) — Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.' Who acts: you. Numbers 32:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 32:24 · JPS 1917

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Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** build, do, proceed · **To what, where:** cities, you, that, mouth

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This is Numbers 32:24 · 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 (you), 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:1172
# text = Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.'
1	Build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | imperative | you *not said here* | cities | you |  |  | for your little ones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary city=Product for one=Asset |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **proceed** | present · perfect |  |  |  | your mouth |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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בְּנֽוּ־לָכֶ֤ם עָרִים֙ לְטַפְּכֶ֔ם וּגְדֵרֹ֖ת לְצֹנַאֲכֶ֑ם וְהַיֹּצֵ֥א מִפִּיכֶ֖ם תַּעֲשֽׂוּ׃

[Numbers 32:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.24/)

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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:1172` 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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