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title: Numbers 6:3 (JPS 1917) — he shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vineg… · tree and pragmatics
description: he shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. Who acts: LORD. Numbers 6:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 6:3 · JPS 1917

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he shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** abstain, drink, eat · **To what, where:** wine, vinegar, liquor, fresh grapes

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This is Numbers 6:3 · 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 (LORD), 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:223
# text = he shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	abstain	abstain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	liquor	liquor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	34	cc	_	_
34	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
35	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	dried	dried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abstain** | shall | LORD |  |  | wine and strong drink |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent from wine=Eventuality |
| 2 | **drink** | shall | LORD | no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vinegar=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | shall | LORD | any liquor of grapes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | fresh grapes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=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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מִיַּ֤יִן וְשֵׁכָר֙ יַזִּ֔יר חֹ֥מֶץ יַ֛יִן וְחֹ֥מֶץ שֵׁכָ֖ר לֹ֣א יִשְׁתֶּ֑ה וְכָל־מִשְׁרַ֤ת עֲנָבִים֙ לֹ֣א יִשְׁתֶּ֔ה וַעֲנָבִ֛ים לַחִ֥ים וִיבֵשִׁ֖ים לֹ֥א יֹאכֵֽל׃

[Numbers 6:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.3/)

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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:223` 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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