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title: Numbers 33:7 (JPS 1917) — And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pihahiroth, whic… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon; and they pitched before Migdol. Who acts: children, Pihahiroth. Numbers 33:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 33:7 · JPS 1917

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And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon; and they pitched before Migdol.

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**Who acts:** children, Pihahiroth · **What happens:** journey, turn back, be, pitch · **To what, where:** Etham

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This is Numbers 33:7 · 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, Pihahiroth), 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:1197
# text = And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon; and they pitched before Migdol.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Etham	Etham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Pihahiroth	Pihahiroth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Baal	Baal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	zephon	zephon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Migdol	Migdol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | children *= child* |  |  | Etham |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from etham=Trajectory |
| 2 | **turn back** | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Pihahiroth | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Pihahiroth |  |  |  | before Baal |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pitch** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  | before Migdol |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent before migdol=Destination |

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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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וַיִּסְעוּ֙ מֵֽאֵתָ֔ם וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ עַל־פִּ֣י הַחִירֹ֔ת פִּ֣י הַחִירֹ֔ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־פְּנֵ֖י בַּ֣עַל צְפ֑וֹן בַּ֣עַל צְפ֑וֹן וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ לִפְנֵ֥י מִגְדֹּֽל׃

[Numbers 33:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.7/)

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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:1197` 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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