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title: Numbers 5:19 (JPS 1917) — And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woma… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman: 'If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse; Who acts: priest, water, man, thou. Numbers 5:19 in JPS 1
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# Numbers 5:19 · JPS 1917

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And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman: 'If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse;

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**Who acts:** priest, water, man, thou · **What happens:** cause, swear, say, lie, not go, be · **To what, where:** water, uncleanness, curse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 5:19 · 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 (priest, water, man, thou), 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:208
# text = And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman: 'If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
18	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
29	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
32	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	uncleanness	uncleanness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
37	under	under	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
42	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nsubj	_	_
43	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	causeth	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | shall | the priest | water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swear** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | the priest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lie** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | no man |  |  |  |  | with thee | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | thou |  |  | uncleanness |  | aside *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to uncleanness=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive | thou |  |  | this water of bitterness |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **cause** | present | this water of bitterness | the curse |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition curse=Patient |

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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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וְהִשְׁבִּ֨יעַ אֹתָ֜הּ הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְאָמַ֤ר אֶל־הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ אִם־לֹ֨א שָׁכַ֥ב אִישׁ֙ אֹתָ֔ךְ וְאִם־לֹ֥א שָׂטִ֛ית טֻמְאָ֖ה תַּ֣חַת אִישֵׁ֑ךְ הִנָּקִ֕י מִמֵּ֛י הַמָּרִ֥ים הַֽמְאָרֲרִ֖ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃

[Numbers 5:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.19/)

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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:208` of Mova's parse database.

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