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title: Numbers 5:6 (JPS 1917) — Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against the LORD, and that soul be guilty; Who acts: you, man, men, soul. Numbers 5:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 5:6 · JPS 1917

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Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against the LORD, and that soul be guilty;

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**Who acts:** you, man, men, soul · **What happens:** speak, commit, be · **To what, where:** sin, trespass · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 5:6 · 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 (you, man, men, soul), 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:195
# text = Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against the LORD, and that soul be guilty;
1	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
8	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	commit	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	commit	commit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	commit	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trespass	trespass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the children of Israel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **commit** | shall | a man or woman | any sin |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Theme |
| 3 | **commit** | present | men | any sin |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **commit** | to-infinitive | a man or woman *not said here* | a trespass |  |  |  | against the LORD | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trespass=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | that soul |  |  |  |  | guilty *property* | tree rules |

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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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דַּבֵּר֮ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ אִ֣ישׁ אֽוֹ־אִשָּׁ֗ה כִּ֤י יַעֲשׂוּ֙ מִכָּל־חַטֹּ֣את הָֽאָדָ֔ם לִמְעֹ֥ל מַ֖עַל בַּיהוָ֑ה וְאָֽשְׁמָ֖ה הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ הַהִֽוא׃

[Numbers 5:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.6/)

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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:195` 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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