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title: Numbers 21:23 (JPS 1917) — And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; but Si… · tree and pragmatics
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# Numbers 21:23 · JPS 1917

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And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.

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**Who acts:** Sihon · **What happens:** not suffer, pass, gather, go out, come, fight · **To what, where:** Israel, border, people, wilderness, Jahaz

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This is Numbers 21:23 · 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 (Sihon), 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:779
# text = And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Sihon	Sihon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Sihon	Sihon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Jahaz	Jahaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
38	against	against	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **suffer** | would | Sihon | Israel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Sihon *not said here* |  |  | Israel's border |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through border=Location |
| 3 | **gather** | past | Sihon | Israel's people |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **go out** | past | Sihon *not said here* |  |  | the wilderness |  | against Israel; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | past | Sihon *not said here* |  |  | Jahaz |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to jahaz=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **fight** | past | Sihon |  |  |  |  | against Israel | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְלֹא־נָתַ֨ן סִיחֹ֣ן אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ עֲבֹ֣ר בִּגְבֻלוֹ֒ וַיֶּאֱסֹ֨ף סִיחֹ֜ן אֶת־כָּל־עַמּ֗וֹ וַיֵּצֵ֞א לִקְרַ֤את יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ הַמִּדְבָּ֔רָה וַיָּבֹ֖א יָ֑הְצָה וַיִּלָּ֖חֶם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Numbers 21:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.23/)

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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:779` 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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