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title: Numbers 24:18 (JPS 1917) — And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also, even his enemies, shall b… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also, even his enemies, shall be a possession; while Israel doeth valiantly. Who acts: Edom, Seir, Israel. Numbers 24:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 24:18 · JPS 1917

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And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also, even his enemies, shall be a possession; while Israel doeth valiantly.

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**Who acts:** Edom, Seir, Israel · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** possession

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This is Numbers 24:18 · 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 (Edom, Seir, Israel), 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:885
# text = And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also, even his enemies, shall be a possession; while Israel doeth valiantly.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Edom	Edom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Seir	Seir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	doeth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	valiantly	valiantly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | shall | Edom | a possession and a possession |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | Seir | a possession |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | Israel |  |  |  |  | valiantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «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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וְהָיָ֨ה אֱד֜וֹם יְרֵשָׁ֗ה וְהָיָ֧ה יְרֵשָׁ֛ה שֵׂעִ֖יר אֹיְבָ֑יו וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עֹ֥שֶׂה חָֽיִל׃

[Numbers 24:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.18/)

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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:885` 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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