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title: Numbers 9:10 (JPS 1917) — 'Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any man of you or of… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD; Who acts: you, man, LORD. Numbers 9:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Numbers 9:10 · JPS 1917

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'Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD;

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**Who acts:** you, man, LORD · **What happens:** speak, say, be, keep · **To what, where:** journey, passover · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 9:10 · 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 (you, man, 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:386
# text = 'Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD;
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
11	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
35	afar	afar	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	off	off	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	passover	passover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the children of Israel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | any man of you or your generations |  |  |  |  | by reason of a dead body; unclean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | any man of you or your generations *not said here* |  |  | a journey |  | off *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | shall | LORD | the passover |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passover=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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דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר אִ֣ישׁ אִ֣ישׁ כִּי־יִהְיֶֽה־טָמֵ֣א ׀ לָנֶ֡פֶשׁ אוֹ֩ בְדֶ֨רֶךְ רְחֹקָ֜הׄלָכֶ֗ם א֚וֹ לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וְעָ֥שָׂה פֶ֖סַח לַיהוָֽה׃

[Numbers 9:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.9.10/)

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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:386` 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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