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title: Numbers 14:15 (JPS 1917) — now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations whic… · tree and pragmatics
description: now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying: Who acts: Thou, nations. Numbers 14:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 14:15 · JPS 1917

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now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying:

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**Who acts:** Thou, nations · **What happens:** kill, hear, speak, say · **To what, where:** people, fame · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 14:15 · 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 (Thou, nations), 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:537
# text = now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying:
1	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | Thou | this people |  |  |  | as one man | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent people=Duration as man=Attribute |
| 2 | **hear** | present · perfect | the nations | the fame of Thee |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fame=Stimulus |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | the nations |  |  |  | now; then |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the nations *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְהֵמַתָּ֛ה אֶת־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה כְּאִ֣ישׁ אֶחָ֑ד וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־שָׁמְע֥וּ אֶֽת־שִׁמְעֲךָ֖ לֵאמֹֽר׃

[Numbers 14:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.15/)

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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:537` 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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