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title: Numbers 23:10 (JPS 1917) — Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his! · tree and pragmatics
description: Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his! Who acts: you, me, end, righteous. Numbers 23:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 23:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his!

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**Who acts:** you, me, end, righteous · **What happens:** let, die, be · **To what, where:** me, death

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This is Numbers 23:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, end, righteous), 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:844
# text = Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his!
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	righteous	righteous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	ccomp	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | infinitive | me *not said here* | the death of the righteous |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | mine end |  |  |  |  | like Israel | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** |  | the righteous |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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מִ֤י מָנָה֙ עֲפַ֣ר יַעֲקֹ֔ב וּמִסְפָּ֖ר אֶת־רֹ֣בַע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל תָּמֹ֤ת נַפְשִׁי֙ מ֣וֹת יְשָׁרִ֔ים וּתְהִ֥י אַחֲרִיתִ֖י כָּמֹֽהוּ׃

[Numbers 23:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.23.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.843/)
2. **Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his!**

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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:844` 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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