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title: Numbers 21:22 (JPS 1917) — 'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.' Who acts: you, me, we. Numbers 21:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Numbers 21:22 · JPS 1917

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'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.'

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**Who acts:** you, me, we · **What happens:** let, pass, not turn, not drink, go · **To what, where:** me, land, field, border

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This is Numbers 21:22 · 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 (you, me, we), 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:778
# text = 'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wells	well	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
45	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  | thy land |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through land=Location |
| 3 | **not** **turn** | future | we |  |  | field or vineyard |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into field=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **drink** | future | we |  |  |  |  | of the water of the wells | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=Source |
| 5 | **go** | future | we |  |  |  |  | by the king's highway | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by highway=Location |
| 6 | **pass** | present · perfect | we | thy border |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme border=Trajectory |

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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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אֶעְבְּרָ֣ה בְאַרְצֶ֗ךָ לֹ֤א נִטֶּה֙ בְּשָׂדֶ֣ה וּבְכֶ֔רֶם לֹ֥א נִשְׁתֶּ֖ה מֵ֣י בְאֵ֑ר בְּדֶ֤רֶךְ הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ נֵלֵ֔ךְ עַ֥ד אֲשֶֽׁר־נַעֲבֹ֖ר גְּבֻלֶֽךָ׃

[Numbers 21:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.22/)

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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:778` of Mova's parse database.

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