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title: Numbers 11:15 (JPS 1917) — And if Thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray Thee, out of hand, if… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if Thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray Thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in Thy sight; and let me not look upon my wretchedness.' Who acts: Thou, I, me, Thy. Numbers 11:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 11:15 · JPS 1917

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And if Thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray Thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in Thy sight; and let me not look upon my wretchedness.'

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**Who acts:** Thou, I, me, Thy · **What happens:** deal, kill, pray, find, let, not look · **To what, where:** me, Thee, hand, favour, sight

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This is Numbers 11:15 · 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 (Thou, I, me, 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:450
# text = And if Thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray Thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in Thy sight; and let me not look upon my wretchedness.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	deal	deal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
24	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | with me; thus *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with i=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **pray** | present | I | Thee |  | hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | I | favour |  | Thy sight |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **look** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon my wretchedness | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon wretchedness=Theme |
| 7 | **sight** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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וְאִם־כָּ֣כָה ׀ אַתְּ־עֹ֣שֶׂה לִּ֗י הָרְגֵ֤נִי נָא֙ הָרֹ֔ג אִם־מָצָ֥אתִי חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ וְאַל־אֶרְאֶ֖ה בְּרָעָתִֽי׃פ

[Numbers 11:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.15/)

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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:450` 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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