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title: Numbers 27:7 (JPS 1917) — 'The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give the… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them. Who acts: daughters, thou, inheritance. Numbers 27:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and th
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# Numbers 27:7 · JPS 1917

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'The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

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**Who acts:** daughters, thou, inheritance · **What happens:** speak, give, cause, pass, possess, inherit · **To what, where:** possession, daughters, inheritance, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 27:7 · 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 (daughters, 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:989
# text = 'The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Zelophehad	Zelophehad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
10	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
36	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the daughters of Zelophehad |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | shall | thou | a possession of a inheritance | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | among daughters's father's brethren; surely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient possession=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | shall | thou | the inheritance of daughters's father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | the inheritance of daughters's father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto daughters *= daughter* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **possess** |  |  | a inheritance |  |  |  | among daughters's father's brethren | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient among=obl |
| 6 | **inherit** |  |  | daughters's father |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: of=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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כֵּ֗ן בְּנ֣וֹת צְלָפְחָד֮ דֹּבְרֹת֒ נָתֹ֨ן תִּתֵּ֤ן לָהֶם֙ אֲחֻזַּ֣ת נַחֲלָ֔ה בְּת֖וֹךְ אֲחֵ֣י אֲבִיהֶ֑ם וְהַֽעֲבַרְתָּ֛ אֶת־נַחֲלַ֥ת אֲבִיהֶ֖ן לָהֶֽן׃

[Numbers 27:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.27.7/)

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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:989` 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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