--- title: Numbers 26:10 (JPS 1917) — and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with… · tree and pragmatics description: and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. Who acts: earth, company, fire, Moses. 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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 (earth, company, fire, Moses), 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:923 # text = and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 up up ADV RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Korah Korah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 17 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 22 det _ _ 22 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 devoured devour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 compound _ _ 27 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 conj _ _ 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | the earth | earth's mouth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | | 2 | **swallow up** | past | the earth *not said here* | Moses | | | | with Korah; together *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **die** | past | that company | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **devour** | past | the fire | hundred men | | | time | | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | | 5 | **become** | past | Moses | a sign | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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} וַתִּפְתַּ֨ח הָאָ֜רֶץ אֶת־פִּ֗יהָ וַתִּבְלַ֥ע אֹתָ֛ם וְאֶת־קֹ֖רַח בְּמ֣וֹת הָעֵדָ֑ה בַּאֲכֹ֣ל הָאֵ֗שׁ אֵ֣ת חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים וּמָאתַ֙יִם֙ אִ֔ישׁ וַיִּהְי֖וּ לְנֵֽס׃ [Numbers 26:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:923` 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. - ← previous: [Numbers 26:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.922/) - next →: [Numbers 26:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.924/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 26:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.10/)