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title: Numbers 36:9 (JPS 1917) — So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for… · tree and pragmatics
description: So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.' Who acts: inheritance, tribes, family. Numbers 36:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 36:9 · JPS 1917

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So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.'

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**Who acts:** inheritance, tribes, family · **What happens:** remove, cleave, inherit · **To what, where:** one tribe

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This is Numbers 36:9 · 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 (inheritance, tribes, family), 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:1319
# text = So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.'
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	cleave	cleave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | shall | no inheritance |  |  | one tribe |  | to another tribe | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from tribe=Source |
| 2 | **cleave** | shall | the tribes of the children of Israel  each one |  |  |  |  | to family's own inheritance *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to inheritance=Result |
| 3 | **inherit** |  | family |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְלֹֽא־תִסֹּ֧ב נַחֲלָ֛ה מִמַּטֶּ֖ה לְמַטֶּ֣ה אַחֵ֑ר כִּי־אִישׁ֙ בְּנַ֣חֲלָת֔וֹ יִדְבְּק֕וּ מַטּ֖וֹת בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Numbers 36:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.36.9/)

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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:1319` 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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