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title: Numbers 19:2 (JPS 1917) — This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer, faultless, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke. Who acts: This, LORD, children, yoke. Numbers 19:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and th
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# Numbers 19:2 · JPS 1917

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This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer, faultless, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.

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**Who acts:** This, LORD, children, yoke · **What happens:** be, command, say, speak, bring, not come · **To what, where:** statute, law, red heifer, thee, blemish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 19:2 · 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 (This, LORD, children, yoke), 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:706
# text = This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer, faultless, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	statute	statute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	iobj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	heifer	heifer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	faultless	faultless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	obl	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	acl:relcl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
41	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
43	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the statute |  |  |  | of the law | tree rules |
| 2 | **command** | present · perfect | the LORD | the law |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto the children of Israel | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | present | children *= child* | a red heifer | thee |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument thou=Theme heifer=Destination |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | no blemish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **come** | past | yoke |  |  |  |  | upon a red heifer | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location |

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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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זֹ֚את חֻקַּ֣ת הַתּוֹרָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר דַּבֵּ֣ר ׀ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְיִקְח֣וּ אֵלֶיךָ֩ פָרָ֨ה אֲדֻמָּ֜ה תְּמִימָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֵֽין־בָּהּ֙ מ֔וּם אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא־עָלָ֥ה עָלֶ֖יהָ עֹֽל׃

[Numbers 19:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.19.2/)

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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:706` of Mova's parse database.

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