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title: Numbers 34:6 (JPS 1917) — And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border… · tree and pragmatics
description: And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your west border. Who acts: ye, this. Numbers 34:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 34:6 · JPS 1917

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And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your west border.

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**Who acts:** ye, this · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** Great Sea, west border

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This is Numbers 34:6 · 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, this), 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:1252
# text = And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your west border.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | ye | the Great Sea |  |  |  | for the western border; for a border | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | this | your west border |  |  |  |  | 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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וּגְב֣וּל יָ֔ם וְהָיָ֥ה לָכֶ֛ם הַיָּ֥ם הַגָּד֖וֹל וּגְב֑וּל זֶֽה־יִהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם גְּב֥וּל יָֽם׃

[Numbers 34:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.6/)

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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:1252` 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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