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title: Numbers 32:31 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying:… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: 'As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. Who acts: children, LORD, we. Numbers 32:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 32:31 · JPS 1917

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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: 'As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.

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**Who acts:** children, LORD, we · **What happens:** answer, say, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 32:31 · 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 (children, LORD, we), 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:1179
# text = And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: 'As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Gad	Gad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
16	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: agree
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the children of Gad and the children of Reuben |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the children of Gad and the children of Reuben *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto thy servants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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וַיַּֽעֲנ֧וּ בְנֵי־גָ֛ד וּבְנֵ֥י רְאוּבֵ֖ן לֵאמֹ֑ר אֵת֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֧ר יְהוָ֛ה אֶל־עֲבָדֶ֖יךָ כֵּ֥ן נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃

[Numbers 32:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.31/)

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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:1179` 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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