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title: Numbers 16:1 (JPS 1917) — Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, wit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men; Who acts: Korah. Numbers 16:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 16:1 · JPS 1917

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Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men;

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**Who acts:** Korah · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** men

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This is Numbers 16:1 · 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 (Korah), 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:610
# text = Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men;
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
2	Korah	Korah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Izhar	Izhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Kohath	Kohath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Dathan	Dathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Abiram	Abiram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Eliab	Eliab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	On	On	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Peleth	Peleth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	appos	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
42	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	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 | **take** | past | Korah with Dathan and Abiram and the sons of Eliab and On |  | men |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |

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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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וַיִּקַּ֣ח קֹ֔רַח בֶּן־יִצְהָ֥ר בֶּן־קְהָ֖ת בֶּן־לֵוִ֑י וְדָתָ֨ן וַאֲבִירָ֜ם בְּנֵ֧י אֱלִיאָ֛ב וְא֥וֹן בֶּן־פֶּ֖לֶת בְּנֵ֥י רְאוּבֵֽן׃

[Numbers 16:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.1/)

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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:610` 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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