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title: Numbers 11:23 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? now s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.' Who acts: LORD, thou, word, My. Numbers 11:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 11:23 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, thou, word, My · **What happens:** say, wax, see, come, pass, word · **To what, where:** hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 11:23 · 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 (LORD, thou, word, My), 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:458
# text = And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	_	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
9	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	'S	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	waxed	wax	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
15	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
18	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obl	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other, act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wax** | present · passive |  | the LORD's hand |  |  |  | short *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | shall | thou |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | shall | My word |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | to-infinitive | My word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto thee | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה הֲיַ֥ד יְהוָ֖ה תִּקְצָ֑ר עַתָּ֥ה תִרְאֶ֛ה הֲיִקְרְךָ֥ דְבָרִ֖י אִם־לֹֽא׃

[Numbers 11:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.23/)

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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:458` 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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