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title: Numbers 21:14 (JPS 1917) — wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD: Vaheb in S… · tree and pragmatics
description: wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD: Vaheb in Suphah, and the valleys of Arnon, Numbers 21:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 21:14 · JPS 1917

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wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD: Vaheb in Suphah, and the valleys of Arnon,

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**What happens:** say · **To what, where:** border, book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 21:14 · 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: 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:769
# text = wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD: Vaheb in Suphah, and the valleys of Arnon,
1	wherefore	wherefore	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Wars	War	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Vaheb	Vaheb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Suphah	Suphah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Arnon	Arnon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | border |  | the book of the Wars of the LORD |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in book=Manner |

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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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עַל־כֵּן֙ יֵֽאָמַ֔ר בְּסֵ֖פֶר מִלְחֲמֹ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה אֶת־וָהֵ֣ב בְּסוּפָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַנְּחָלִ֖ים אַרְנֽוֹן׃

[Numbers 21:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.14/)

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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:769` 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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