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title: Numbers 13:22 (JPS 1917) — And they went up into the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, S… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they went up into the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. — Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. — Who acts: grapes, Ahiman. Numbers 13:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 13:22 · JPS 1917

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And they went up into the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. — Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. —

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**Who acts:** grapes, Ahiman · **What happens:** go up, come, be, build · **To what, where:** South, Hebron

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This is Numbers 13:22 · 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 (grapes, Ahiman), 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:510
# text = And they went up into the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. — Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. —
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Hebron	Hebron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
15	Ahiman	Ahiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Sheshai	Sheshai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Talmai	Talmai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Anak	Anak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
32	Hebron	Hebron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
35	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	before	before	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Zoan	Zoan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
42	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go up** | past | grapes *= grape* |  |  | the South |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | past | grapes *= grape* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Hebron | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **build** | past · passive |  | Hebron |  |  | before Zoan in Egypt; now; year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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וַיַּעֲל֣וּ בַנֶּגֶב֮ וַיָּבֹ֣א עַד־חֶבְרוֹן֒ וְשָׁ֤ם אֲחִימַן֙ שֵׁשַׁ֣י וְתַלְמַ֔י יְלִידֵ֖י הָעֲנָ֑ק וְחֶבְר֗וֹן שֶׁ֤בַע שָׁנִים֙ נִבְנְתָ֔ה לִפְנֵ֖י צֹ֥עַן מִצְרָֽיִם׃

[Numbers 13:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.22/)

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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:510` 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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