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title: Numbers 17:23 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. Who acts: tent, Moses. Numbers 17:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Numbers 17:23 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

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**Who acts:** tent, Moses · **What happens:** come, pass, go, bud, put, bloom · **To what, where:** morrow, tent, rod, buds, blossoms, ripe almonds

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This is Numbers 17:23 · 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 (tent, Moses), 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:667
# text = And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	csubj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	testimony	testimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	34	discourse	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	budded	bud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
38	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
43	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
47	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	almonds	almond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	.	.	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 | tent |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | tent *not said here* |  |  | the morrow |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on morrow=Location |
| 3 | **go** | past | Moses |  |  | the tent of the testimony |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tent=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **bud** | past · passive |  | the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | past |  | buds |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bud=Goal |
| 6 | **bloom** | past |  | blossoms |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location blossom=Theme |
| 7 | **bear** | past |  | ripe almonds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent almond=Patient |

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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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וַיְהִ֣י מִֽמָּחֳרָ֗ת וַיָּבֹ֤א מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל־אֹ֣הֶל הָעֵד֔וּת וְהִנֵּ֛ה פָּרַ֥ח מַטֵּֽה־אַהֲרֹ֖ן לְבֵ֣ית לֵוִ֑י וַיֹּ֤צֵֽא פֶ֙רַח֙ וַיָּ֣צֵֽץ צִ֔יץ וַיִּגְמֹ֖ל שְׁקֵדִֽים׃

[Numbers 17:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.23/)

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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:667` of Mova's parse database.

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