--- title: Numbers 11:25 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke unto him, and took of… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders; and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. Who acts: LORD, spirit, word, elders. 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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 (LORD, spirit, word, elders), 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:460 # text = And the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders; and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 unto unto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 upon upon ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 41 when when SCONJ WRB _ 44 mark _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 rested rest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 advcl _ _ 45 upon upon ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 48 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 prophesied prophesy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 but but CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 52 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ _ 54 so so ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 55 no no ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 53 advmod _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come down** | past | the LORD | | | the cloud | | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD *not said here* | | | | | unto LORD | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | past | the LORD *not said here* | | | | | of the spirit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of spirit=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is** | past | the spirit | | | | | upon LORD | tree rules | | 5 | **put** | past | the LORD *not said here* | word | | the seventy elders | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon elder=Destination | | 6 | **come** | past | word | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **pass** | to-infinitive | word *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **rest** | past | the spirit | | | | | upon elders *= elder* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | | 9 | **prophesy** | past | elders *= elder* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **do** | past | elders *= elder* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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} וַיֵּ֨רֶד יְהוָ֥ה ׀ בֶּעָנָן֮ וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר אֵלָיו֒ וַיָּ֗אצֶל מִן־הָר֙וּחַ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָלָ֔יו וַיִּתֵּ֕ן עַל־שִׁבְעִ֥ים אִ֖ישׁ הַזְּקֵנִ֑ים וַיְהִ֗י כְּנ֤וֹחַ עֲלֵיהֶם֙ הָר֔וּחַ וַיִּֽתְנַבְּא֖וּ וְלֹ֥א יָסָֽפוּ׃ [Numbers 11:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:460` 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 11:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.459/) - next →: [Numbers 11:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.461/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 11:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.25/)