--- title: Numbers 11:33 (JPS 1917) — While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the… · tree and pragmatics description: While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. Who acts: flesh, LORD. 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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, LORD), 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:468 # text = While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 yet yet ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 between between ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 ere ere SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 chewed chew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 kindled kindle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 22 against against ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 smote smote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 very very ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 plague plague NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the flesh | | | | yet | between quails's teeth | tree rules | | 2 | **chew** | past · passive | | flesh | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **kindle** | past · passive | | the anger of the LORD | | | | against the people | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **smote** | past | the LORD | the people | | | | with a great plague | tree rules | | 5 | **anger** | | the LORD | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=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} הַבָּשָׂ֗ר עוֹדֶ֙נּוּ֙ בֵּ֣ין שִׁנֵּיהֶ֔ם טֶ֖רֶם יִכָּרֵ֑ת וְאַ֤ף יְהוָה֙ חָרָ֣ה בָעָ֔ם וַיַּ֤ךְ יְהוָה֙ בָּעָ֔ם מַכָּ֖ה רַבָּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃ [Numbers 11:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.33/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:468` 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 11:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.467/) - next →: [Numbers 11:34 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.469/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 11:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.33/)