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title: Numbers 26:54 (JPS 1917) — To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer t… · tree and pragmatics
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# Numbers 26:54 · JPS 1917

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To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance; to each one according to those that were numbered of it shall its inheritance be given.

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**Who acts:** thou, inheritance · **What happens:** give, accord, number, inherit · **To what, where:** more inheritance, more, less inheritance, fewer, inheritance, one

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This is Numbers 26:54 · 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 (thou, inheritance), 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:969
# text = To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance; to each one according to those that were numbered of it shall its inheritance be given.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obl	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fewer	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
25	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	case	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	nmod	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | shall | thou | the more inheritance | the more |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent inheritance=Theme to more=Recipient |
| 2 | **give** | shall | thou | the less inheritance | the fewer |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent inheritance=Theme to few=Recipient |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **number** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of inheritance | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | shall · passive |  | inheritance's inheritance | each one accord those |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to one=Recipient |
| 6 | **inherit** |  | inheritance |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=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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לָרַ֗ב תַּרְבֶּה֙ נַחֲלָת֔וֹ וְלַמְעַ֕ט תַּמְעִ֖יט נַחֲלָת֑וֹ אִ֚ישׁ לְפִ֣י פְקֻדָ֔יו יֻתַּ֖ן נַחֲלָתֽוֹ׃

[Numbers 26:54: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.54/)

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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:969` of Mova's parse database.

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