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title: Numbers 11:12 (JPS 1917) — Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that Thou shouldest say unto me: Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which Thou didst swear unto their fathers? Who acts: I, Thou, nursing father, thy. Numbers 11:12 in JPS 1917 with its d
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# Numbers 11:12 · JPS 1917

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Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that Thou shouldest say unto me: Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which Thou didst swear unto their fathers?

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**Who acts:** I, Thou, nursing father, thy · **What happens:** conceive, bring, say, carry, suck, swear · **To what, where:** people, bosom, sucking child, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 11:12 · 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 (I, Thou, nursing father, thy), 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:447
# text = Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that Thou shouldest say unto me: Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which Thou didst swear unto their fathers?
1	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	nursing	nursing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	carrieth	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obj	_	_
41	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nsubj	_	_
42	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl:relcl	_	_
44	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceive** | present · perfect | I | all people |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | present · perfect | I | people |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | Thou |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **carry** | infinitive |  | people |  | thy bosom |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in bosom=Location |
| 5 | **carry** | present | a nursing father | the sucking child |  |  |  | unto the land | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 6 | **suck** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **swear** | past · do-support | Thou | the land |  |  |  | unto people's fathers | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 8 | **bosom** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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הֶאָנֹכִ֣י הָרִ֗יתִי אֵ֚ת כָּל־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה אִם־אָנֹכִ֖י יְלִדְתִּ֑יהוּ כִּֽי־תֹאמַ֨ר אֵלַ֜י שָׂאֵ֣הוּ בְחֵיקֶ֗ךָ כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשָּׂ֤א הָאֹמֵן֙ אֶת־הַיֹּנֵ֔ק עַ֚ל הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתָּ לַאֲבֹתָֽיו׃

[Numbers 11:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.12/)

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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:447` 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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