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title: Numbers 35:15 (JPS 1917) — For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the settler… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the settler among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that every one that killeth any person through error may flee thither. Who acts: six cities, one. Numbers 35:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Numbers 35:15 · JPS 1917

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For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the settler among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that every one that killeth any person through error may flee thither.

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**Who acts:** six cities, one · **What happens:** be, kill, flee · **To what, where:** person, error

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This is Numbers 35:15 · 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 (six cities, one), 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:1291
# text = For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the settler among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that every one that killeth any person through error may flee thither.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	settler	settler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	killeth	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
37	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **is** | shall | this six cities |  |  |  |  | for refuge; for the children of Israel and the stranger and the settler among stranger | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | present |  | any person |  | error |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 3 | **flee** | may | one |  |  |  |  | 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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לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְלַגֵּ֤ר וְלַתּוֹשָׁב֙ בְּתוֹכָ֔ם תִּהְיֶ֛ינָה שֵׁשׁ־הֶעָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה לְמִקְלָ֑ט לָנ֣וּס שָׁ֔מָּה כָּל־מַכֵּה־נֶ֖פֶשׁ בִּשְׁגָגָֽה׃

[Numbers 35:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.15/)

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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:1291` 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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