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title: Numbers 16:22 (JPS 1917) — And they fell upon their faces, and said: 'O God, the God of the spi… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they fell upon their faces, and said: 'O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt Thou be wroth with all the congregation?' Who acts: men, one man, Thou. Numbers 16:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 16:22 · JPS 1917

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And they fell upon their faces, and said: 'O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt Thou be wroth with all the congregation?'

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**Who acts:** men, one man, Thou · **What happens:** fall, say, sin, be · **To what, where:** faces, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 16:22 · 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 (men, one man, Thou), 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:631
# text = And they fell upon their faces, and said: 'O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt Thou be wroth with all the congregation?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sin	sin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | men *= man* |  |  | men's faces |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | men *= man* *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sin** | shall | one man |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | future | Thou |  |  |  |  | with all congregation; wroth *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַיִּפְּל֤וּ עַל־פְּנֵיהֶם֙ וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ אֵ֕ל אֱלֹהֵ֥י הָרוּחֹ֖ת לְכָל־בָּשָׂ֑ר הָאִ֤ישׁ אֶחָד֙ יֶחֱטָ֔א וְעַ֥ל כָּל־הָעֵדָ֖ה תִּקְצֹֽף׃פ

[Numbers 16:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.22/)

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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:631` 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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