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title: Numbers 14:33 (JPS 1917) — And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. Who acts: children. Numbers 14:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 14:33 · JPS 1917

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And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** be, bear, consume · **To what, where:** wanderers, wilderness, strayings, carcasses

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This is Numbers 14:33 · 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 (children), 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:556
# text = And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	wanderers	wanderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	strayings	straying	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | shall | your children | wanderers |  | the wilderness | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | shall | your children *not said here* | your strayings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straying=Patient |
| 3 | **consume** | infinitive · passive |  | your carcasses |  | the wilderness |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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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וּ֠בְנֵיכֶם יִהְי֨וּ רֹעִ֤ים בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה וְנָשְׂא֖וּ אֶת־זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑ם עַד־תֹּ֥ם פִּגְרֵיכֶ֖ם בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

[Numbers 14:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.33/)

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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:556` 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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