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title: Numbers 13:20 (JPS 1917) — and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wo… · tree and pragmatics
description: and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Who acts: land, wood. Numbers 13:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 13:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not.

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**Who acts:** land, wood · **What happens:** be

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This is Numbers 13:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (land, wood), 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:507
# text = and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
18	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is a** | present | the land |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | land |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | land *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | wood |  |  | there |  | therein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וּמָ֣ה הָ֠אָרֶץ הַשְּׁמֵנָ֨ה הִ֜וא אִם־רָזָ֗ה הֲיֵֽשׁ־בָּ֥הּ עֵץ֙ אִם־אַ֔יִן וְהִ֨תְחַזַּקְתֶּ֔ם וּלְקַחְתֶּ֖ם מִפְּרִ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ וְהַ֨יָּמִ֔ים יְמֵ֖י בִּכּוּרֵ֥י עֲנָבִֽים׃

[Numbers 13:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not.**
2. [And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.' — Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.508/)

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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:507` 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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