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title: Numbers 12:14 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Moses: 'If her father had but spit in her fac… · tree and pragmatics
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# Numbers 12:14 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said unto Moses: 'If her father had but spit in her face, should she not hide in shame seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, father, Aaron · **What happens:** say, have, spit, not hide, let, shut up · **To what, where:** face, shame, Aaron · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 12:14 · 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, father, Aaron), 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:484
# text = And the LORD said unto Moses: 'If her father had but spit in her face, should she not hide in shame seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.'
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	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	:	_	22	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
13	but	but	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	spit	spit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	without	without	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
40	after	after	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	obl	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	again	again	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
49	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Aaron's father |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spit** | infinitive | Aaron's father *not said here* |  |  | Aaron's face |  | but *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **hide** | should | Aaron |  |  | shame | day |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shame=Location |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | Aaron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shut up** | infinitive · passive | Aaron *not said here* |  |  |  | day | without the camp | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» |
| 7 | **bring in** | shall · passive |  | Aaron |  |  | after that; again |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֗ה וְאָבִ֙יהָ֙ יָרֹ֤ק יָרַק֙ בְּפָנֶ֔יהָ הֲלֹ֥א תִכָּלֵ֖ם שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים תִּסָּגֵ֞ר שִׁבְעַ֤ת יָמִים֙ מִח֣וּץ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה וְאַחַ֖ר תֵּאָסֵֽף׃

[Numbers 12:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.12.14/)

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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:484` 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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