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title: Numbers 21:16 (JPS 1917) — And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto… · tree and pragmatics
description: And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.' Who acts: that, LORD, I. Numbers 21:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 21:16 · JPS 1917

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And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'

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**Who acts:** that, LORD, I · **What happens:** be, say, gather, give · **To what, where:** well, thence, people, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 21:16 · 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 (that, LORD, 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:771
# text = And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	thence	thence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Beer	Beer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	whereof	whereof	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	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 | **is a** | present | that | the well |  | thence to Beer |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Moses; whereof *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **gather** | infinitive |  | the people |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | future | I | water | people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient water=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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וּמִשָּׁ֖ם בְּאֵ֑רָה הִ֣וא הַבְּאֵ֗ר אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ לְמֹשֶׁ֔ה אֱסֹף֙ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם וְאֶתְּנָ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם מָֽיִם׃ס

[Numbers 21:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.16/)

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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:771` 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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