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title: Numbers 21:17 (JPS 1917) — Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it — · tree and pragmatics
description: Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it — Who acts: Israel, ye. Numbers 21:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 21:17 · JPS 1917

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Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it —

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**Who acts:** Israel, ye · **What happens:** sing, spring up · **To what, where:** song

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This is Numbers 21:17 · 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, ye), 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:772
# text = Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it —
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Spring	spring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
11	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Israel | this song |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 2 | **spring up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | well *vocative* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | unto well | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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אָ֚ז יָשִׁ֣יר יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶת־הַשִּׁירָ֖ה הַזֹּ֑את עֲלִ֥י בְאֵ֖ר עֱנוּ־לָֽהּ׃

[Numbers 21:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.17/)

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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:772` 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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