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title: Numbers 20:5 (JPS 1917) — And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us i… · tree and pragmatics
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# Numbers 20:5 · JPS 1917

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And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.'

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**Who acts:** ye, us, place · **What happens:** make, come up, bring, be, drink · **To what, where:** us, Egypt, place

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This is Numbers 20:5 · 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 (ye, us, place), 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:731
# text = And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RP	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	pomegranates	pomegranate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
42	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	43	cc	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	_	43	expl	_	_
45	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
50	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect | ye | us |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come up** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | Egypt |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out egypt=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* |  | us |  |  | unto this evil place | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | present | place | no place |  |  |  | of seed or figs or vines or pomegranates | tree rules |
| 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | place *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וְלָמָ֤ה הֶֽעֱלִיתֻ֙נוּ֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם לְהָבִ֣יא אֹתָ֔נוּ אֶל־הַמָּק֥וֹם הָרָ֖ע הַזֶּ֑ה לֹ֣א ׀ מְק֣וֹם זֶ֗רַע וּתְאֵנָ֤ה וְגֶ֙פֶן֙ וְרִמּ֔וֹן וּמַ֥יִם אַ֖יִן לִשְׁתּֽוֹת׃

[Numbers 20:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.20.5/)

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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:731` 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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