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title: Numbers 33:55 (JPS 1917) — But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell. Who acts: ye, those, inhabitants. Numbers 33:55 in JPS 1917 with its d
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# Numbers 33:55 · JPS 1917

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But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell.

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**Who acts:** ye, those, inhabitants · **What happens:** not drive out, let, remain, be, harass, dwell · **To what, where:** inhabitants, eyes, you, land

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This is Numbers 33:55 · 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 (ye, those, inhabitants), 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:1245
# text = But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	pricks	prick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	harass	harass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	50	advmod	_	_
49	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	50	nsubj	_	_
50	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	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 | **not** **drive out** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | ye | the inhabitants of the land |  |  |  | from you | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme from you=Trajectory |
| 2 | **let** | past | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of inhabitants *= inhabitant* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | shall | those |  |  | your eyes | then | as thorns and pricks in your sides | tree rules |
| 5 | **harass** | shall | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | you |  | the land |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 6 | **dwell** | present | ye |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְאִם־לֹ֨א תוֹרִ֜ישׁוּ אֶת־יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָרֶץ֮ מִפְּנֵיכֶם֒ וְהָיָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תּוֹתִ֣ירוּ מֵהֶ֔ם לְשִׂכִּים֙ בְּעֵ֣ינֵיכֶ֔ם וְלִצְנִינִ֖ם בְּצִדֵּיכֶ֑ם וְצָרֲר֣וּ אֶתְכֶ֔ם עַל־הָאָ֕רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתֶּ֖ם יֹשְׁבִ֥ים בָּֽהּ׃

[Numbers 33:55: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.55/)

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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:1245` of Mova's parse database.

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