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title: Numbers 20:8 (JPS 1917) — 'Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy br… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink.' Who acts: you, thou, ye, congr
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# Numbers 20:8 · JPS 1917

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'Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink.'

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**Who acts:** you, thou, ye, congregation · **What happens:** take, assemble, speak, give forth, bring forth, give · **To what, where:** rod, congregation, water, Moses, rock, drink · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 20:8 · 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 (you, thou, ye, congregation), 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:734
# text = 'Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	assemble	assemble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
31	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
37	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
39	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
42	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
49	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	51	nsubj	_	_
50	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	iobj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	53	conj	_	_
57	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
59	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the rod |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme |
| 2 | **assemble** | infinitive | thou | the congregation |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent congregation=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  | before Moses's eyes | unto the rock | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give forth** | infinitive | congregation | congregation's water |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source water=Theme |
| 5 | **bring forth** | shall | thou | water | Moses | the rock |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 6 | **give** | shall | thou | drink | the congregation and Moses's cattle |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent congregation=Recipient drink=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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קַ֣ח אֶת־הַמַּטֶּ֗ה וְהַקְהֵ֤ל אֶת־הָעֵדָה֙ אַתָּה֙ וְאַהֲרֹ֣ן אָחִ֔יךָ וְדִבַּרְתֶּ֧ם אֶל־הַסֶּ֛לַע לְעֵינֵיהֶ֖ם וְנָתַ֣ן מֵימָ֑יו וְהוֹצֵאתָ֨לָהֶ֥ם מַ֙יִם֙ מִן־הַסֶּ֔לַע וְהִשְׁקִיתָ֥ אֶת־הָעֵדָ֖ה וְאֶת־בְּעִירָֽם׃

[Numbers 20:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.20.8/)

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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:734` 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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