--- title: Numbers 17:20 (JPS 1917) — And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod… · tree and pragmatics description: And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall bud; and I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.' Who acts: tent, I, man, rods. 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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 (tent, I, man, rods), 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:664 # text = And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall bud; and I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 11 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 bud bud VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 cease cease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 murmurings murmuring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obj _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 murmur murmur VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 40 against against ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | shall | tent | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | tent *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **choose** | shall | I | the man | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | | 4 | **bud** | shall | the man | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **make** | future | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cease** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the murmurings of the children of Israel | | | | from Me | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality murmuring=Eventuality | | 7 | **murmur** *speech: other* | present | rods *= rod* | the murmurings of the children of Israel | | | | against you | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 8 | **murmur** | | | the children of Israel | | | | | nom murmuring «event transitive»: of=patient | 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} וְהָיָ֗ה הָאִ֛ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֶבְחַר־בּ֖וֹ מַטֵּ֣הוּ יִפְרָ֑ח וַהֲשִׁכֹּתִ֣י מֵֽעָלַ֗י אֶת־תְּלֻנּוֹת֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥ם מַלִּינִ֖ם עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃ [Numbers 17:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:664` 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. - ← previous: [Numbers 17:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.663/) - next →: [Numbers 17:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.665/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 17:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.20/)