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title: Numbers 5:22 (JPS 1917) — and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away'; and the woman shall say: 'Amen, Amen.' Who acts: water, belly, woman. Numbers 5:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 5:22 · JPS 1917

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and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away'; and the woman shall say: 'Amen, Amen.'

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**Who acts:** water, belly, woman · **What happens:** cause, go, make, swell, fall away, say · **To what, where:** curse, bowels · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 5:22 · 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 (water, belly, woman), 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:211
# text = and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away'; and the woman shall say: 'Amen, Amen.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	causeth	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bowels	bowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	swell	swell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Amen	amen	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Amen	amen	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | this water | the curse |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition curse=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | shall | this water |  |  | thy bowels |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bowel=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | this water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **swell** | to-infinitive | thy belly and thy thigh |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **fall away** | to-infinitive | thy belly and thy thigh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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וּ֠בָאוּ הַמַּ֨יִם הַמְאָרְרִ֤ים הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ בְּֽמֵעַ֔יִךְ לַצְבּ֥וֹת בֶּ֖טֶן וְלַנְפִּ֣ל יָרֵ֑ךְ וְאָמְרָ֥ה הָאִשָּׁ֖ה אָמֵ֥ן ׀ אָמֵֽן׃

[Numbers 5:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.22/)

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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:211` 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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