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title: Numbers 12:8 (JPS 1917) — with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark… · tree and pragmatics
description: with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD doth he behold; wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?' Who acts: I, LORD, ye. Numbers 12:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Numbers 12:8 · JPS 1917

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with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD doth he behold; wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?'

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**Who acts:** I, LORD, ye · **What happens:** speak, behold, not be · **To what, where:** mouth, similitude · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 12:8 · 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 (I, LORD, ye), 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:478
# text = with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD doth he behold; wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?'
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	manifestly	manifestly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	similitude	similitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
29	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	against	against	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	against	against	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · do-support | I | mouth |  |  |  | with LORD; to mouth; manifestly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **behold** | present · do-support | LORD | the similitude of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer similitude=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | ye |  |  |  | then | afraid, wherefore *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against My servant; against Moses | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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פֶּ֣ה אֶל־פֶּ֞ה אֲדַבֶּר־בּ֗וֹ וּמַרְאֶה֙ וְלֹ֣א בְחִידֹ֔ת וּתְמֻנַ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה יַבִּ֑יט וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙ לֹ֣א יְרֵאתֶ֔ם לְדַבֵּ֖ר בְּעַבְדִּ֥י בְמֹשֶֽׁה׃

[Numbers 12:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.12.8/)

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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:478` 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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