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title: Numbers 5:12 (JPS 1917) — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: If any man's w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: If any man's wife go aside, and act unfaithfully against him, Who acts: you, wife. Numbers 5:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 5:12 · JPS 1917

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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: If any man's wife go aside, and act unfaithfully against him,

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**Who acts:** you, wife · **What happens:** speak, say, go, act · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 5:12 · 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, wife), 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:201
# text = Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: If any man's wife go aside, and act unfaithfully against him,
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	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
19	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	act	act	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	unfaithfully	unfaithfully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto children *= child* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any man's wife |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **act** | infinitive | any man's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Israel; unfaithfully *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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דַּבֵּר֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֲלֵהֶ֑ם אִ֥ישׁ אִישׁ֙ כִּֽי־תִשְׂטֶ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ וּמָעֲלָ֥ה ב֖וֹ מָֽעַל׃

[Numbers 5:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.12/)

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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:201` 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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