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title: Numbers 35:11 (JPS 1917) — then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person through error may flee thither. Who acts: ye, manslayer. Numbers 35:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 35:11 · JPS 1917

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then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person through error may flee thither.

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**Who acts:** ye, manslayer · **What happens:** appoint, be, kill, flee · **To what, where:** you, cities, person, error

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This is Numbers 35:11 · 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, manslayer), 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:1287
# text = then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person through error may flee thither.
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
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	appoint	appoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	manslayer	manslayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	killeth	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
26	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **appoint** | shall | ye | you |  |  | then |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | cities |  |  |  | of refuge; for you | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | present | the manslayer | any person |  | error |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 4 | **flee** | may | the manslayer |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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וְהִקְרִיתֶ֤ם לָכֶם֙ עָרִ֔ים עָרֵ֥י מִקְלָ֖ט תִּהְיֶ֣ינָה לָכֶ֑ם וְנָ֥ס שָׁ֙מָּה֙ רֹצֵ֔חַ מַכֵּה־נֶ֖פֶשׁ בִּשְׁגָגָֽה׃

[Numbers 35:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.11/)

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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:1287` 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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