--- title: Numbers 14:14 (JPS 1917) — they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that T… · tree and pragmatics description: they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that Thou LORD art in the midst of this people; inasmuch as Thou LORD art seen face to face, and Thy cloud standeth over them, and Thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; Who acts: people, in --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.536/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Numbers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/) / [chapter 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/14/) / [14:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.14/) / JPS 1 # Numbers 14:14 · JPS 1917 they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that Thou LORD art in the midst of this people; inasmuch as Thou LORD art seen face to face, and Thy cloud standeth over them, and Thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; **Who acts:** people, inhabitants, cloud, Thou, Thy · **What happens:** say, hear, see, stand, go, cloud · **To what, where:** inhabitants, Thou, pillar · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Numbers 14:14 · 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 (people, inhabitants, cloud, Thou), 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:536 # text = they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that Thou LORD art in the midst of this people; inasmuch as Thou LORD art seen face to face, and Thy cloud standeth over them, and Thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 16 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 17 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 inasmuch inasmuch SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 29 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 31 face face ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 standeth stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 44 nsubj _ _ 44 goest go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 45 before before ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 53 by by ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 55 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ _ 62 by by ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 63 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ _ 64 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | people | | the inhabitants of this land | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to inhabitant=Recipient | | 2 | **hear** | present · perfect | the inhabitants of this land | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **see** | present · passive | | Thou | | | | to face; face *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **stand** | present | Thy cloud | | | | | over people | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location | | 5 | **go** | present | Thou | | | a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night | before people | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before they=Location | | 6 | **cloud** | | Thy | | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְאָמְר֗וּ אֶל־יוֹשֵׁב֮ הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּאת֒ שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה בְּקֶ֖רֶב הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־עַ֨יִן בְּעַ֜יִן נִרְאָ֣ה ׀ אַתָּ֣ה יְהוָ֗ה וַעֲנָֽנְךָ֙ עֹמֵ֣ד עֲלֵהֶ֔ם וּבְעַמֻּ֣ד עָנָ֗ן אַתָּ֨ה הֹלֵ֤ךְ לִפְנֵיהֶם֙ יוֹמָ֔ם וּבְעַמּ֥וּד אֵ֖שׁ לָֽיְלָה׃ [Numbers 14:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:536` 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. - ← previous: [Numbers 14:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.535/) - next →: [Numbers 14:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.537/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 14:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.14/)