--- title: Numbers 21:3 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; and the name of the place was called Hormah. Who acts: LORD, Canaanites. 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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 (LORD, Canaanites), 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:758 # text = And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; and the name of the place was called Hormah. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hearkened hearken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 delivered deliver VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Canaanites Canaanites PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 utterly utterly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 destroyed destroy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 34 Hormah Hormah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hearken** | past | the LORD | | | | | to the voice of Israel | tree rules | | 2 | **deliver up** | past | the LORD *not said here* | the Canaanites | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canaanites=Patient | | 3 | **destroy** | past | Canaanites | cities *= city* | | | | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **call** | past · passive | | the name of the place | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **name** | | | the place | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיִּשְׁמַ֨ע יְהוָ֜ה בְּק֣וֹל יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַיִּתֵּן֙ אֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י וַיַּחֲרֵ֥ם אֶתְהֶ֖ם וְאֶת־עָרֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּקְרָ֥א שֵׁם־הַמָּק֖וֹם חָרְמָֽה׃פ [Numbers 21:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:758` 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. - ← previous: [Numbers 21:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.757/) - next →: [Numbers 21:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.759/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 21:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.3/)