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title: Numbers 9:22 (JPS 1917) — Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed. Who acts: cloud, children. Numbers 9:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Numbers 9:22 · JPS 1917

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Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

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**Who acts:** cloud, children · **What happens:** be, tarry, abide, remain, not journey, take up · **To what, where:** two days, it

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This is Numbers 9:22 · 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 (cloud, children), 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:398
# text = Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tarried	tarry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	abiding	abide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	encamped	encamp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
38	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	41	mark	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	advcl	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	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 | **is a** | past | cloud | two days or a month or a year |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tarry** | past | the cloud | two days or a month or a year *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the tabernacle | tree rules |
| 3 | **abide** | gerund | the cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | past | the children of Israel |  |  |  |  | encamp *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **journey** | past | the children of Israel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **take up** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **journey** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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אֽוֹ־יֹמַ֜יִם אוֹ־חֹ֣דֶשׁ אוֹ־יָמִ֗ים בְּהַאֲרִ֨יךְ הֶעָנָ֤ן עַל־הַמִּשְׁכָּן֙ לִשְׁכֹּ֣ן עָלָ֔יו יַחֲנ֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וְלֹ֣א יִסָּ֑עוּ וּבְהֵעָלֹת֖וֹ יִסָּֽעוּ׃

[Numbers 9:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.9.22/)

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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:398` 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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