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title: Numbers 35:27 (JPS 1917) — and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him; Who acts: avenger, bloodguiltiness. Numbers 35:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 35:27 · JPS 1917

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and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him;

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**Who acts:** avenger, bloodguiltiness · **What happens:** find, slay, be · **To what, where:** manslayer

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This is Numbers 35:27 · 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 (avenger, bloodguiltiness), 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:1303
# text = and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him;
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	manslayer	manslayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	bloodguiltiness	bloodguiltiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | infinitive | the avenger of blood | manslayer |  |  |  | without the border of manslayer's city of refuge | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **slay** | infinitive | the avenger of blood | the manslayer |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manslayer=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | shall | no bloodguiltiness |  |  | there |  | for manslayer | vn exist-47.1 «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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וּמָצָ֤א אֹתוֹ֙ גֹּאֵ֣ל הַדָּ֔ם מִח֕וּץ לִגְב֖וּל עִ֣יר מִקְלָט֑וֹ וְרָצַ֞ח גֹּאֵ֤ל הַדָּם֙ אֶת־הָ֣רֹצֵ֔חַ אֵ֥ין ל֖וֹ דָּֽם׃

[Numbers 35:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.27/)

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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:1303` of Mova's parse database.

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