--- title: Numbers 11:20 (JPS 1917) — but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loa… · tree and pragmatics description: but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have troubled Him with weeping, saying: Why, now, came we forth out of Egypt?' Who acts: flesh, ye, LORD, 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 (flesh, ye, LORD, 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:455 # text = but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have troubled Him with weeping, saying: Why, now, came we forth out of Egypt?' 1 but but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 until until SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 come come VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 out out ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 loathsome loathsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 18 unto unto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 rejected reject VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 among among ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 troubled trouble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 36 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 weeping weep NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 41 : : PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 42 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 46 advmod _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 46 advmod _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 46 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 ccomp _ _ 47 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 48 forth forth ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 49 out out ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 52 ? ? PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ _ 53 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | present | flesh | | | your nostrils | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | flesh | | | | | unto you; loathsome *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **reject** | present · perfect | ye | the LORD | | | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | the LORD | | | | | among you | tree rules | | 5 | **trouble** | present · perfect | ye *not said here* | LORD | | | | with weeping | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | ye *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **come** | past | we | | | Egypt | now | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out egypt=Initial\_Location | 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} עַ֣ד ׀ חֹ֣דֶשׁ יָמִ֗ים עַ֤ד אֲשֶׁר־יֵצֵא֙ מֵֽאַפְּכֶ֔ם וְהָיָ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם לְזָרָ֑א יַ֗עַן כִּֽי־מְאַסְתֶּ֤ם אֶת־יְהוָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֔ם וַתִּבְכּ֤וּ לְפָנָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֖ה יָצָ֥אנוּ מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃ [Numbers 11:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:455` 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 11:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.454/) - next →: [Numbers 11:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.456/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 11:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.20/)