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title: Numbers 14:18 (JPS 1917) — The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgivin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. Who acts: LORD, that. Numbers 14:18 in JPS 1917 with it
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# Numbers 14:18 · JPS 1917

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The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

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**Who acts:** LORD, that · **What happens:** be, forgive, clear, visit · **To what, where:** lovingkindness, iniquity, guilty

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This is Numbers 14:18 · 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 (LORD, that), 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:540
# text = The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	plenteous	plenteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	lovingkindness	lovingkindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	forgiving	forgive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
14	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	transgression	transgression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	means	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	24	obl	_	_
24	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	guilty	guilty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	45	amod	_	_
45	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | to anger; slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the LORD *not said here* |  |  | lovingkindness |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **forgive** | gerund |  | iniquity and transgression |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme |
| 4 | **clear** | future | that | the guilty |  |  |  | by no means | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent guilty=Source |
| 5 | **visit** | gerund | that *not said here* | the iniquity of the fathers |  |  |  | upon the children upon the third and the fourth generation | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Co-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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יְהוָ֗ה אֶ֤רֶךְ אַפַּ֙יִם֙ וְרַב־חֶ֔סֶד נֹשֵׂ֥א עָוֺ֖ן וָפָ֑שַׁע וְנַקֵּה֙ לֹ֣א יְנַקֶּ֔ה פֹּקֵ֞ד עֲוֺ֤ן אָבוֹת֙ עַל־בָּנִ֔ים עַל־שִׁלֵּשִׁ֖ים וְעַל־רִבֵּעִֽים׃

[Numbers 14:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.18/)

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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:540` 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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