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title: Numbers 11:8 (JPS 1917) — The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or b… · tree and pragmatics
description: The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of a cake baked with oil. Who acts: people, taste. Numbers 11:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Numbers 11:8 · JPS 1917

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The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of a cake baked with oil.

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**Who acts:** people, taste · **What happens:** go about, gather, grind, beat, seethe, make · **To what, where:** manna, mills, pots, cakes, cake

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This is Numbers 11:8 · 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 (people, taste), 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:443
# text = The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of a cake baked with oil.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ground	grind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	mortars	mortar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	seethed	seethe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
49	.	.	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 | **go about** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gather** | past | the people *not said here* | manna |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **grind** | past | the people *not said here* | manna |  | mills |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **beat** | past | the people *not said here* | manna |  |  |  | in mortars | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in mortar=Topic |
| 5 | **seethe** | past | the people *not said here* | manna |  | pots |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | past | the people *not said here* | cakes of manna |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product |
| 7 | **is** | past | the taste of manna |  |  |  |  | as the taste; of a cake | tree rules |
| 8 | **bake** | participle |  | a cake *not said here* |  |  |  | with oil | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with oil=Instrument |
| 9 | **taste** |  |  | manna |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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שָׁטוּ֩ הָעָ֨ם וְלָֽקְט֜וּ וְטָחֲנ֣וּ בָרֵחַ֗יִם א֤וֹ דָכוּ֙ בַּמְּדֹכָ֔ה וּבִשְּׁלוּ֙ בַּפָּר֔וּר וְעָשׂ֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ עֻג֑וֹת וְהָיָ֣ה טַעְמ֔וֹ כְּטַ֖עַם לְשַׁ֥ד הַשָּֽׁמֶן׃

[Numbers 11:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.8/)

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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:443` of Mova's parse database.

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