--- title: Numbers 15:30 (JPS 1917) — But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-b… · tree and pragmatics description: But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a stranger, the same blasphemeth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Who acts: soul. Numbers 15:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.598/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/15/) / [15:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.30/) / JPS 1 # Numbers 15:30 · JPS 1917 But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a stranger, the same blasphemeth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. **Who acts:** soul · **What happens:** do, be, blaspheme, cut off · **To what, where:** aught, LORD, soul This is Numbers 15:30 · 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 (soul), 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:598 # text = But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a stranger, the same blasphemeth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 doeth do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 aught aught NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 15 home home ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 born born ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 same same NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 blasphemeth blaspheme VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 34 off off ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 among among ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | the soul | aught | | | | with a high hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | soul | | | | | born *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **blaspheme** | present | the soul | the LORD | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | | 4 | **cut off** | shall · passive | | that soul | | | | from soul's people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from people=Initial\_Location | 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} וְהַנֶּ֜פֶשׁ אֲשֶֽׁר־תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה ׀ בְּיָ֣ד רָמָ֗ה מִן־הָֽאֶזְרָח֙ וּמִן־הַגֵּ֔ר אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה ה֣וּא מְגַדֵּ֑ף וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ הַהִ֖וא מִקֶּ֥רֶב עַמָּֽהּ׃ [Numbers 15:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.30/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:598` 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 15:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.597/) - next →: [Numbers 15:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.599/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 15:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.30/)