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title: Numbers 24:22 (JPS 1917) — Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long? · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long? Numbers 24:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 24:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long?

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**What happens:** waste · **To what, where:** Kain

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This is Numbers 24:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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: 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:889
# text = Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long?
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Kain	Kain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	wasted	waste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **waste** | shall · passive |  | Kain |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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כִּ֥י אִם־יִהְיֶ֖ה לְבָ֣עֵֽר קָ֑יִן עַד־מָ֖ה אַשּׁ֥וּר תִּשְׁבֶּֽךָּ׃

[Numbers 24:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.22/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long?**
2. [Asshur shall carry thee away captive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.890/)

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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:889` 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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