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title: Numbers 16:26 (JPS 1917) — And he spoke unto the congregation, saying: 'Depart, I pray you, fro… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he spoke unto the congregation, saying: 'Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be swept away in all their sins.' Who acts: Moses, I. Numbers 16:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 16:26 · JPS 1917

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And he spoke unto the congregation, saying: 'Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be swept away in all their sins.'

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**Who acts:** Moses, I · **What happens:** speak, say, depart, pray, touch, sweep away · **To what, where:** tents, you, nothing, ye, sins · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 16:26 · 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 (Moses, 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:635
# text = And he spoke unto the congregation, saying: 'Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be swept away in all their sins.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Depart	depart	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	theirs	theirs	PRON	PRP	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	swept	sweep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Moses |  |  |  |  | unto the congregation | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Moses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **depart** | infinitive |  |  |  | the tents of this wicked men |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tent=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **pray** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **touch** | infinitive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **sweep away** | infinitive · passive |  | ye |  | men's sins |  | away *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in sin=Trajectory |

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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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וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר אֶל־הָעֵדָ֜ה לֵאמֹ֗ר ס֣וּרוּ נָ֡א מֵעַל֩ אָהֳלֵ֨י הָאֲנָשִׁ֤ים הָֽרְשָׁעִים֙ הָאֵ֔לֶּה וְאַֽל־תִּגְּע֖וּ בְּכָל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר לָהֶ֑ם פֶּן־תִּסָּפ֖וּ בְּכָל־חַטֹּאתָֽם׃

[Numbers 16:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.26/)

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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:635` 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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