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title: Numbers 14:4 (JPS 1917) — And they said one to another: 'Let us make a captain, and let us ret… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they said one to another: 'Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.' Who acts: wives, us. Numbers 14:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 14:4 · JPS 1917

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And they said one to another: 'Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.'

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**Who acts:** wives, us · **What happens:** say, let, make, return · **To what, where:** one, us, captain, Egypt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 14:4 · 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 (wives, us), 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:526
# text = And they said one to another: 'Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	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 | wives *= wife* | one |  |  |  | to another | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | us *not said here* | a captain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset captain=Product |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | Egypt |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into egypt=Initial\_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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וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֑יו נִתְּנָ֥ה רֹ֖אשׁ וְנָשׁ֥וּבָה מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

[Numbers 14:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.4/)

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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:526` 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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