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title: Numbers 16:35 (JPS 1917) — And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense. Who acts: fire, two hundred men. Numbers 16:35 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 16:35 · JPS 1917

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And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

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**Who acts:** fire, two hundred men · **What happens:** come, devour, offer · **To what, where:** two hundred men, incense

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This is Numbers 16:35 · 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 (fire, two hundred men), 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:644
# text = And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	devoured	devour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | past | fire |  |  |  |  | from the LORD; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lord=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **devour** | past | fire *not said here* | the two hundred men |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **offer** | past | the two hundred men | the incense |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent incense=Theme |

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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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וְאֵ֥שׁ יָצְאָ֖ה מֵאֵ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וַתֹּ֗אכַל אֵ֣ת הַחֲמִשִּׁ֤ים וּמָאתַ֙יִם֙ אִ֔ישׁ מַקְרִיבֵ֖י הַקְּטֹֽרֶת׃פ

[Numbers 16:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.35/)

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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:644` 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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