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title: Numbers 5:30 (JPS 1917) — or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he be jealous… · tree and pragmatics
description: or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he be jealous over his wife; then shall he set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. Who acts: spirit, priest. Numbers 5:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 5:30 · JPS 1917

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or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he be jealous over his wife; then shall he set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

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**Who acts:** spirit, priest · **What happens:** come, be, set, execute · **To what, where:** woman, law

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This is Numbers 5:30 · 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 (spirit, priest), 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:219
# text = or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he be jealous over his wife; then shall he set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
1	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	execute	execute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the spirit of jealousy |  |  |  |  | upon a man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Location |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | spirit |  |  |  |  | over spirit's wife; jealous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | shall | spirit | the woman |  |  | before the LORD; then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme before lord=Destination |
| 4 | **execute** | shall | the priest | all law |  |  |  | upon woman | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=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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א֣וֹ אִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר תַּעֲבֹ֥ר עָלָ֛יו ר֥וּחַ קִנְאָ֖ה וְקִנֵּ֣א אֶת־אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ וְהֶעֱמִ֤יד אֶת־הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וְעָ֤שָׂה לָהּ֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַתּוֹרָ֖ה הַזֹּֽאת׃

[Numbers 5:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.30/)

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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:219` 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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