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title: Numbers 21:29 (JPS 1917) — Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh; he hath giv… · tree and pragmatics
description: Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh; he hath given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, unto Sihon king of the Amorites. Who acts: Moab. Numbers 21:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 21:29 · JPS 1917

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Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh; he hath given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

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**Who acts:** Moab · **What happens:** undo, give · **To what, where:** thou, sons

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This is Numbers 21:29 · 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 (Moab), 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:785
# text = Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh; he hath given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
1	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	undone	undo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	vocative	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Chemosh	Chemosh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Sihon	Sihon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Amorites	Amorite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=express, polarity=neg, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undo** | present · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | people of Chemosh *vocative* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect | Moab | Moab's sons |  |  |  | as fugitives; unto Sihon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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אוֹי־לְךָ֣ מוֹאָ֔ב אָבַ֖דְתָּ עַם־כְּמ֑וֹשׁ נָתַ֨ן בָּנָ֤יו פְּלֵיטִם֙ וּבְנֹתָ֣יו בַּשְּׁבִ֔ית לְמֶ֥לֶךְ אֱמֹרִ֖י סִיחֽוֹן׃

[Numbers 21:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.29/)

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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:785` 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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