--- title: Numbers 26:65 (JPS 1917) — For the LORD had said of them: 'They shall surely die in the wildern… · tree and pragmatics description: For the LORD had said of them: 'They shall surely die in the wilderness.' And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. Who acts: LORD, Nadab. 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And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. **Who acts:** LORD, Nadab · **What happens:** say, die, not leave · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Numbers 26:65 · 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 (LORD, Nadab), 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:981 # text = For the LORD had said of them: 'They shall surely die in the wilderness.' And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 said say VERB VBN Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 10 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 surely surely ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 19 And and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Ind 23 expl _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 save save ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Caleb Caleb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Jephunneh Jephunneh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 Joshua Joshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Nun Nun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the LORD | | | | | of Nadab | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **die** | shall | Nadab | | | | | in the wilderness; surely *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wilderness=Attribute | | 3 | **not** **leave** | past · passive | the LORD *not said here* | a man of Nadab | | there | | save Caleb and Joshua | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: man=Theme | 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} כִּֽי־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ לָהֶ֔ם מ֥וֹת יָמֻ֖תוּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וְלֹא־נוֹתַ֤ר מֵהֶם֙ אִ֔ישׁ כִּ֚י אִם־כָּלֵ֣ב בֶּן־יְפֻנֶּ֔ה וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ בִּן־נֽוּן׃ס [Numbers 26:65: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.65/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:981` 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 26:64 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.980/) - next →: [Numbers 27:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.982/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 26:65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.65/)