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title: Numbers 1:38 (JPS 1917) — Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; Numbers 1:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 1:38 · JPS 1917

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Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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**What happens:** accord, be, go · **To what, where:** war

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This is Numbers 1:38 · 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:37
# text = Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Dan	Dan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|VerbForm=Ger	23	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	appos	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	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 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | war |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location |

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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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לִבְנֵ֣י דָ֔ן תּוֹלְדֹתָ֥ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר שֵׁמֹ֗ת מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָמַ֔עְלָה כֹּ֖ל יֹצֵ֥א צָבָֽא׃

[Numbers 1:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.38/)

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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:37` 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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