---
title: Numbers 11:22 (JPS 1917) — If flocks and herds be slain for them, will they suffice them? or if… · tree and pragmatics
description: If flocks and herds be slain for them, will they suffice them? or if all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, will they suffice them?' Who acts: flocks, fish. Numbers 11:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.457/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Numbers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/) / [chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/11/) / [11:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.22/) / JPS 1

# Numbers 11:22 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
If flocks and herds be slain for them, will they suffice them? or if all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, will they suffice them?'

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** flocks, fish · **What happens:** slay, suffice, gather · **To what, where:** flocks, herds, fish

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Numbers 11:22 · 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 (flocks, fish), 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:457
# text = If flocks and herds be slain for them, will they suffice them? or if all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, will they suffice them?'
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	suffice	suffice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	suffice	suffice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, voice=character

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | flocks and herds |  |  |  | for herds *= herd* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **suffice** | future | flocks *= flock* | herds *= herd* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | all fish of the sea |  |  |  | for flocks *= flock*; together *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for they=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **suffice** | future | fish | flocks *= flock* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
הֲצֹ֧אן וּבָקָ֛ר יִשָּׁחֵ֥ט לָהֶ֖ם וּמָצָ֣א לָהֶ֑ם אִ֣ם אֶֽת־כָּל־דְּגֵ֥י הַיָּ֛ם יֵאָסֵ֥ף לָהֶ֖ם וּמָצָ֥א לָהֶֽם׃פ

[Numbers 11:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.22/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:457` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Numbers 11:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.456/)
- next →: [Numbers 11:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.458/)
- ↑ back to [Numbers 11:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.22/)