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title: Numbers 35:5 (JPS 1917) — And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand… · tree and pragmatics
description: And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. Who acts: ye, city. Numbers 35:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependenc
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# Numbers 35:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst.

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**Who acts:** ye, city · **What happens:** measure, be · **To what, where:** thousand cubits, midst

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This is Numbers 35:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, city), 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:1280
# text = And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	measure	measure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	compound	_	_
31	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
39	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	compound	_	_
40	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
45	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	cop	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **measure** | shall | ye | thousand cubits |  |  |  | without the city; for the east side | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | the city |  |  | the midst |  |  | 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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וּמַדֹּתֶ֞ם מִח֣וּץ לָעִ֗יר אֶת־פְּאַת־קֵ֣דְמָה אַלְפַּ֪יִם בָּֽאַמָּ֟ה וְאֶת־פְּאַת־נֶגֶב֩ אַלְפַּ֨יִם בָּאַמָּ֜ה וְאֶת־פְּאַת־יָ֣ם ׀ אַלְפַּ֣יִם בָּֽאַמָּ֗ה וְאֵ֨ת פְּאַ֥ת צָפ֛וֹן אַלְפַּ֥יִם בָּאַמָּ֖ה וְהָעִ֣יר בַּתָּ֑וֶךְ זֶ֚ה יִהְיֶ֣ה לָהֶ֔ם מִגְרְשֵׁ֖י הֶעָרִֽים׃

[Numbers 35:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst.**
2. [This shall be to them the open land about the cities.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1281/)

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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:1280` 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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