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title: Numbers 5:28 (JPS 1917) — And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cle… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed. Numbers 5:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 5:28 · JPS 1917

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And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed.

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**What happens:** not defile, be, clear, conceive · **To what, where:** woman, seed

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This is Numbers 5:28 · 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: 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:217
# text = And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	defiled	defile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	cleared	clear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	conceive	conceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **defile** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | the woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **clear** | shall · passive |  | woman |  |  | then |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 4 | **conceive** | shall |  | seed |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |

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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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וְאִם־לֹ֤א נִטְמְאָה֙ הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה וּטְהֹרָ֖ה הִ֑וא וְנִקְּתָ֖ה וְנִזְרְעָ֥ה זָֽרַע׃

[Numbers 5:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.28/)

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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:217` 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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