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title: Numbers 21:2 (JPS 1917) — And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.' Who acts: Israel, Thou, I. Numbers 21:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 21:2 · JPS 1917

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And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.'

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**Who acts:** Israel, Thou, I · **What happens:** vow, say, deliver, destroy · **To what, where:** vow, people, hand, cities · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 21:2 · 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 (Israel, Thou, I), 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:757
# text = And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
14	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
16	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, indirect=0, polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vow** | past | Israel | a vow |  |  |  | unto the LORD | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Israel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **deliver** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | Thou | this people |  | my hand |  | indeed *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 4 | **destroy** | future | I | people's cities |  |  | then | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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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וַיִּדַּ֨ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל נֶ֛דֶר לַֽיהוָ֖ה וַיֹּאמַ֑ר אִם־נָתֹ֨ן תִּתֵּ֜ן אֶת־הָעָ֤ם הַזֶּה֙ בְּיָדִ֔י וְהַֽחֲרַמְתִּ֖י אֶת־עָרֵיהֶֽם׃

[Numbers 21:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.2/)

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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:757` 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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