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title: Numbers 5:20 (JPS 1917) — but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be… · tree and pragmatics
description: but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband — Who acts: thou, man. Numbers 5:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 5:20 · JPS 1917

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but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband —

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**Who acts:** thou, man · **What happens:** go, be, defile, lie · **To what, where:** thou

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This is Numbers 5:20 · 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 (thou, man), 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:209
# text = but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband —
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	cop	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	defiled	defile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obl	_	_
26	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **go** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | under thy husband | tree rules |
| 3 | **defile** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | infinitive · perfect | some man |  |  |  |  | with thee; besides thy husband | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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וְאַ֗תְּ כִּ֥י שָׂטִ֛ית תַּ֥חַת אִישֵׁ֖ךְ וְכִ֣י נִטְמֵ֑את וַיִּתֵּ֨ן אִ֥ישׁ בָּךְ֙ אֶת־שְׁכָבְתּ֔וֹ מִֽבַּלְעֲדֵ֖י אִישֵֽׁךְ׃

[Numbers 5:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.20/)

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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:209` 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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