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title: Numbers 10:36 (JPS 1917) — And when it rested, he said: 'Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when it rested, he said: 'Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands of the families of Israel.' Who acts: ark, Moses. Numbers 10:36 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 10:36 · JPS 1917

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And when it rested, he said: 'Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands of the families of Israel.'

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**Who acts:** ark, Moses · **What happens:** rest, say, return · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 10:36 · 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 (ark, Moses), 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:435
# text = And when it rested, he said: 'Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands of the families of Israel.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | ark |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Moses |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto the ten thousands of the families of Israel; LORD *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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וּבְנֻחֹ֖ה יֹאמַ֑ר שׁוּבָ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה רִֽבְב֖וֹת אַלְפֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Numbers 10:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.36/)

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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:435` 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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