--- title: Numbers 11:13 (JPS 1917) — Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they tr… · tree and pragmatics description: Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they trouble me with their weeping, saying: Give us flesh, that we may eat. Who acts: I, people, we. 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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, people, we), 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:448 # text = Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they trouble me with their weeping, saying: Give us flesh, that we may eat. 1 Whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 trouble trouble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 weeping weeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 24 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: express - voice: none - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: changed indirect=1, act=express, form=q | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | should | I | flesh | | | | whence *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | | 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | flesh *not said here* | | | | unto all people | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **trouble** | present | people | me | | | | with people's weeping | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** | infinitive | | flesh | us | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient flesh=Theme | | 6 | **eat** | may | we | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **weep** | | people | | | | | | nom weeping «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} מֵאַ֤יִן לִי֙ בָּשָׂ֔ר לָתֵ֖ת לְכָל־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּֽי־יִבְכּ֤וּ עָלַי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר תְּנָה־לָּ֥נוּ בָשָׂ֖ר וְנֹאכֵֽלָה׃ [Numbers 11:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:448` 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. - ← previous: [Numbers 11:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.447/) - next →: [Numbers 11:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.449/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 11:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.13/)