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title: Numbers 14:27 (JPS 1917) — 'How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that keep murmur… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that keep murmuring against Me? Who acts: I, evil congregation. Numbers 14:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 14:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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'How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that keep murmuring against Me?

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**Who acts:** I, evil congregation · **What happens:** bear, keep, murmur

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This is Numbers 14:27 · 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 (I, evil congregation), 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:549
# text = 'How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that keep murmuring against Me?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | with this evil congregation; long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **keep** | present | this evil congregation |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | gerund | this evil congregation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Me | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against i=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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עַד־מָתַ֗י לָעֵדָ֤ה הָֽרָעָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥מָּה מַלִּינִ֖ים עָלָ֑י אֶת־תְּלֻנּ֞וֹת בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵ֧מָּה מַלִּינִ֛ים עָלַ֖י שָׁמָֽעְתִּי׃

[Numbers 14:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.27/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **'How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that keep murmuring against Me?**
2. [I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they keep murmuring against Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.550/)

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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:549` 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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