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title: Numbers 12:12 (JPS 1917) — Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.' Who acts: you, I, Aaron, LORD. Numbers 12:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 12:12 · JPS 1917

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Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.'

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**Who acts:** you, I, Aaron, LORD · **What happens:** let, pray, not be, consume, come out · **To what, where:** flesh

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This is Numbers 12:12 · 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 (you, I, Aaron, 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:482
# text = Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.'
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	advmod	_	_
19	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pray** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **not** **is** | infinitive | Aaron |  |  |  |  | as one; dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **consume** | present · passive |  | the flesh |  |  |  | half *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 5 | **come out** | present | LORD |  |  |  |  | of LORD's mother's womb | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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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אַל־נָ֥א תְהִ֖י כַּמֵּ֑ת אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּצֵאתוֹ֙ מֵרֶ֣חֶם אִמּ֔וֹ וַיֵּאָכֵ֖ל חֲצִ֥י בְשָׂרֽוֹ׃

[Numbers 12:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.12.12/)

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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:482` 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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