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title: Numbers 32:39 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein. Who acts: children, Amorites. Numbers 32:39 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 32:39 · JPS 1917

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And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.

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**Who acts:** children, Amorites · **What happens:** go, take, dispossess, be · **To what, where:** Gilead, charge, Amorites

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This is Numbers 32:39 · 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, Amorites), 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:1187
# text = And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Machir	Machir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	dispossessed	dispossess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Amorites	Amorite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **go** | past | the children of Machir |  |  | Gilead |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gilead=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | the children of Machir *not said here* | charge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **dispossess** | past | the children of Machir *not said here* | the Amorites |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amorite=Source |
| 4 | **is** | past | the Amorites |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַיֵּ֨לְכ֜וּ בְּנֵ֨י מָכִ֧יר בֶּן־מְנַשֶּׁ֛ה גִּלְעָ֖דָה וַֽיִּלְכְּדֻ֑הָ וַיּ֖וֹרֶשׁ אֶת־הָאֱמֹרִ֥י אֲשֶׁר־בָּֽהּ׃

[Numbers 32:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.39/)

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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:1187` 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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