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title: Numbers 17:14 (JPS 1917) — Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah. Who acts: dead, Korah. Numbers 17:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 17:14 · JPS 1917

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Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.

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**Who acts:** dead, Korah · **What happens:** die, be, matter · **To what, where:** fourteen thousand

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This is Numbers 17:14 · 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 (dead, Korah), 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:658
# text = Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Korah	Korah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **die** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by the plague | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past | dead | fourteen thousand |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about the matter of Korah | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **matter** |  | Korah |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וַיִּהְי֗וּ הַמֵּתִים֙ בַּמַּגֵּפָ֔ה אַרְבָּעָ֥ה עָשָׂ֛ר אֶ֖לֶף וּשְׁבַ֣ע מֵא֑וֹת מִלְּבַ֥ד הַמֵּתִ֖ים עַל־דְּבַר־קֹֽרַח׃

[Numbers 17:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.14/)

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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:658` 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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