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title: Numbers 32:38 (JPS 1917) — and Nebo, and Baal-meon — their names being changed — and Sibmah; an… · tree and pragmatics
description: and Nebo, and Baal-meon — their names being changed — and Sibmah; and gave their names unto the cities which they builded. Who acts: children. Numbers 32:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 32:38 · JPS 1917

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and Nebo, and Baal-meon — their names being changed — and Sibmah; and gave their names unto the cities which they builded.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** change, give, build, name · **To what, where:** names, cities

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This is Numbers 32:38 · 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), 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:1186
# text = and Nebo, and Baal-meon — their names being changed — and Sibmah; and gave their names unto the cities which they builded.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	Nebo	Nebo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	Baal	Baal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	meon	meon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Sibmah	Sibmah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	builded	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **change** | gerund · passive |  | children's names |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | past |  | children's names |  |  |  | unto the cities | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | past | children *= child* | the cities |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product |
| 4 | **name** |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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וְאֶת־נְב֞וֹ וְאֶת־בַּ֧עַל מְע֛וֹן בַּ֧עַל מְע֛וֹן מֽוּסַבֹּ֥ת שֵׁ֖ם וְאֶת־שִׂבְמָ֑ה וַיִּקְרְא֣וּ בְשֵׁמֹ֔ת אֶת־שְׁמ֥וֹת הֶעָרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנֽוּ׃

[Numbers 32:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.38/)

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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:1186` 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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