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title: Numbers 16:21 (JPS 1917) — 'Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consum… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.' Who acts: you, I. Numbers 16:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 16:21 · JPS 1917

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'Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.'

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** separate, consume · **To what, where:** yourselves, men

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This is Numbers 16:21 · 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 (you, I), 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:630
# text = 'Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Separate	separate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourselves |  |  |  | from this congregation | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yourselves=Patient from congregation=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **consume** | may | I | men *= man* |  |  | moment |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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הִבָּ֣דְל֔וּ מִתּ֖וֹךְ הָעֵדָ֣ה הַזֹּ֑את וַאַכַלֶּ֥האֹתָ֖ם כְּרָֽגַע׃

[Numbers 16:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.21/)

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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:630` 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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