--- title: Numbers 35:28 (JPS 1917) — because he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the… · tree and pragmatics description: because he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return into the land of his possession. Who acts: avenger, manslayer, high priest. 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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 (avenger, manslayer, high priest), 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:1304 # text = because he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return into the land of his possession. 1 because because SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 refuge refuge NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 until until ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 manslayer manslayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remain** | must | avenger | | | avenger's city of refuge | until the death of the high priest | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | | 2 | **return** | may | the manslayer | | | the land of avenger's possession | after the death of the high priest | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **die** | | the high priest | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 4 | **die** | | the high priest | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 5 | **possess** | | avenger | | | | | | nom possession «act 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} כִּ֣י בְעִ֤יר מִקְלָטוֹ֙ יֵשֵׁ֔ב עַד־מ֖וֹת הַכֹּהֵ֣ן הַגָּדֹ֑ל וְאַחֲרֵ֥י מוֹת֙ הַכֹּהֵ֣ן הַגָּדֹ֔ל יָשׁוּב֙ הָרֹצֵ֔חַ אֶל־אֶ֖רֶץ אֲחֻזָּתֽוֹ׃ [Numbers 35:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.28/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:1304` 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 35:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1303/) - next →: [Numbers 35:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1305/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 35:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.28/)