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title: Numbers 19:18 (JPS 1917) — And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave. Who acts: clean person, persons. Numbers 19:18 in JPS 1917 with i
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# Numbers 19:18 · JPS 1917

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And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.

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**Who acts:** clean person, persons · **What happens:** take, dip, sprinkle, be, touch · **To what, where:** hyssop, water, tent, bone

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This is Numbers 19:18 · 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 (clean person, persons), 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:722
# text = And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	hyssop	hyssop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dip	dip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	conj	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	dead	dead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | a clean person | hyssop |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hyssop=Theme |
| 2 | **dip** | infinitive | a clean person *not said here* | hyssop |  | the water |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in water=Trajectory |
| 3 | **sprinkle** | infinitive | a clean person *not said here* | water |  | the tent and all vessels and the persons |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon tent=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | the persons |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **touch** | past |  | the bone or the slain or the dead or the grave |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bone=Co-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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וְלָקַ֨ח אֵז֜וֹב וְטָבַ֣ל בַּמַּיִם֮ אִ֣ישׁ טָהוֹר֒ וְהִזָּ֤ה עַל־הָאֹ֙הֶל֙ וְעַל־כָּל־הַכֵּלִ֔ים וְעַל־הַנְּפָשׁ֖וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָֽיוּ־שָׁ֑ם וְעַל־הַנֹּגֵ֗עַ בַּעֶ֙צֶם֙ א֣וֹ בֶֽחָלָ֔ל א֥וֹ בַמֵּ֖ת א֥וֹ בַקָּֽבֶר׃

[Numbers 19:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.19.18/)

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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:722` of Mova's parse database.

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