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title: Numbers 14:3 (JPS 1917) — And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Who acts: LORD. Numbers 14:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 14:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword?

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** bring, fall · **To what, where:** us

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This is Numbers 14:3 · 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 (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:524
# text = And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **bring** | present · do-support | the LORD |  | us |  |  | unto this land; wherefore *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination |
| 2 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the sword | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sword=Location |

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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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וְלָמָ֣ה יְ֠הוָה מֵבִ֨יא אֹתָ֜נוּ אֶל־הָאָ֤רֶץ הַזֹּאת֙ לִנְפֹּ֣ל בַּחֶ֔רֶב נָשֵׁ֥ינוּ וְטַפֵּ֖נוּ יִהְי֣וּ לָבַ֑ז הֲל֧וֹא ט֦וֹב לָ֖נוּ שׁ֥וּב מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

[Numbers 14:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword?**
2. [Our wives and our little ones will be a prey; were it not better for us to return into Egypt?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.525/)

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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:524` 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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