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title: Numbers 9:15 (JPS 1917) — And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony; and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. Who acts: day, cloud. Numbers 9:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Numbers 9:15 · JPS 1917

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And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony; and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.

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**Who acts:** day, cloud · **What happens:** rear up, cover, be · **To what, where:** tabernacle, even, appearance

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This is Numbers 9:15 · 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 (day, cloud), 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:391
# text = And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony; and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	reared	rear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	testimony	testimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	even	even	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	until	until	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **rear up** | past · passive | the day *not said here* | the tabernacle |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **cover** | past | the cloud | the tabernacle |  |  | day |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tabernacle=Destination |
| 3 | **be** | past | the cloud *not said here* |  |  | even; there | morning | upon the tabernacle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at even=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past | cloud | the appearance |  |  |  | of fire | tree rules |

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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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וּבְיוֹם֙ הָקִ֣ים אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן כִּסָּ֤ה הֶֽעָנָן֙ אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן לְאֹ֖הֶל הָעֵדֻ֑ת וּבָעֶ֜רֶב יִהְיֶ֧ה עַֽל־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ן כְּמַרְאֵה־אֵ֖שׁ עַד־בֹּֽקֶר׃

[Numbers 9:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.9.15/)

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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:391` 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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