--- title: Numbers 35:23 (JPS 1917) — or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast i… · tree and pragmatics description: or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; Who acts: man, murderer. 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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 (man, murderer), 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:1299 # text = or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; 1 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 3 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 whereby whereby ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 cast cast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 upon upon ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 so so SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 35 cc _ _ 35 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | may | a man | | | | | whereby *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **not** **see** | gerund | a man *not said here* | man | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 3 | **cast** | infinitive | | any stone | | | | upon murderer | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon he=Destination | | 4 | **die** | past | murderer | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **not** **is a** | past | murderer | murderer's enemy | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **seek** | past | | murderer's harm | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Theme | | 7 | **harm** | | murderer | | | | | | nom harm «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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} א֣וֹ בְכָל־אֶ֜בֶן אֲשֶׁר־יָמ֥וּת בָּהּ֙ בְּלֹ֣א רְא֔וֹת וַיַּפֵּ֥ל עָלָ֖יו וַיָּמֹ֑ת וְהוּא֙ לֹא־אוֹיֵ֣ב ל֔וֹ וְלֹ֥א מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ רָעָתֽוֹ׃ [Numbers 35:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:1299` 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. - ← previous: [Numbers 35:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1298/) - next →: [Numbers 35:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1300/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 35:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.23/)