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title: Numbers 6:5 (JPS 1917) — All the days of his vow of Naziriteship there shall no razor come up… · tree and pragmatics
description: All the days of his vow of Naziriteship there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, in which he consecrateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. Who acts: razor, LORD, locks. Numbers 6:5 in JPS 1917 with its dep
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# Numbers 6:5 · JPS 1917

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All the days of his vow of Naziriteship there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, in which he consecrateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

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**Who acts:** razor, LORD, locks · **What happens:** come, fulfil, consecrate, be, let, grow · **To what, where:** head, days, LORD, locks, Naziriteship

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This is Numbers 6:5 · 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 (razor, LORD, locks), 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:225
# text = All the days of his vow of Naziriteship there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, in which he consecrateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Naziriteship	Naziriteship	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	_	13	expl	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	razor	razor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	consecrateth	consecrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
50	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come** | shall | no razor |  |  | LORD's head; there | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon head=Location |
| 2 | **fulfil** | infinitive · passive |  | the days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **consecrate** | present | LORD | LORD |  |  | in the days | unto the LORD | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | shall | LORD |  |  |  |  | holy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | shall | LORD | the locks of the hair of LORD's head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | infinitive | the locks of the hair of LORD's head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **vow** |  | LORD | Naziriteship |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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כָּל־יְמֵי֙ נֶ֣דֶר נִזְר֔וֹ תַּ֖עַר לֹא־יַעֲבֹ֣ר עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ עַד־מְלֹ֨את הַיָּמִ֜ם אֲשֶׁר־יַזִּ֤יר לַיהוָה֙ קָדֹ֣שׁ יִהְיֶ֔ה גַּדֵּ֥ל פֶּ֖רַע שְׂעַ֥ר רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

[Numbers 6:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.5/)

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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:225` of Mova's parse database.

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