--- title: Numbers 35:33 (JPS 1917) — So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it pollu… · tree and pragmatics description: So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Who acts: ye, land, blood. 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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 (ye, land, blood), 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:1309 # text = So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 pollute pollute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 polluteth pollute VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 expiation expiation NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 shed shed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 therein therein ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nmod _ _ 43 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 44 shed shed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **pollute** | shall | ye | the land | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pollute** | present | land | the land | | | | for blood | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | can · passive | | no expiation | | | | for the land; for the blood; by the blood of murderer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for land=Asset | | 4 | **shed** | present · passive | | the blood | | | | therein *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | | 5 | **shed** | past | the blood of murderer | land | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Source | 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} וְלֹֽא־תַחֲנִ֣יפוּ אֶת־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֤ר אַתֶּם֙ בָּ֔הּ כִּ֣י הַדָּ֔ם ה֥וּא יַחֲנִ֖יף אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְלָאָ֣רֶץ לֹֽא־יְכֻפַּ֗ר לַדָּם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר שֻׁפַּךְ־בָּ֔הּ כִּי־אִ֖ם בְּדַ֥ם שֹׁפְכֽוֹ׃ [Numbers 35:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.33/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:1309` 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 35:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1308/) - next →: [Numbers 35:34 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1310/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 35:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.33/)