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title: Numbers 16:13 (JPS 1917) — is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowi… · tree and pragmatics
description: is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us? Who acts: incense, thou, land. Numbers 16:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 16:13 · JPS 1917

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is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?

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**Who acts:** incense, thou, land · **What happens:** be, bring up, flow, kill, make · **To what, where:** small thing, land, us, wilderness, thyself

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This is Numbers 16:13 · 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 (incense, thou, land), 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:622
# text = is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?
1	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	needs	need	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
34	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	33	obj	_	_
35	also	also	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	xcomp	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	_
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=disagree, indirect=1, hedge=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | incense | a small thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring up** | present · perfect | thou | a small thing |  | a land |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund | a land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with milk and honey | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with milk=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | us |  | the wilderness |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | must | thou | thyself |  |  |  | need *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thyself=Product |

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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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הַמְעַ֗ט כִּ֤י הֶֽעֱלִיתָ֙נוּ֙ מֵאֶ֨רֶץ זָבַ֤ת חָלָב֙ וּדְבַ֔שׁ לַהֲמִיתֵ֖נוּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר כִּֽי־תִשְׂתָּרֵ֥ר עָלֵ֖ינוּ גַּם־הִשְׂתָּרֵֽר׃

[Numbers 16:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.13/)

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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:622` 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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