--- title: Numbers 27:8 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a man d… · tree and pragmatics description: And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. Who acts: thou, man, ye, inheritance. 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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 (thou, man, ye, 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:990 # text = And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 If if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 die die VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 24 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 25 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 31 unto unto ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | shall | thou | | | | | unto the children of Israel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a man | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **have** | present | a man *not said here* | no son | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 5 | **cause** | shall | ye | man's inheritance | | | then | | tree rules | | 6 | **pass** | to-infinitive | man's inheritance *not said here* | | | | | unto man's daughter | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **inherit** | | man | | | | | | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְאֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל תְּדַבֵּ֣ר לֵאמֹ֑ר אִ֣ישׁ כִּֽי־יָמ֗וּת וּבֵן֙ אֵ֣ין ל֔וֹ וְהַֽעֲבַרְתֶּ֥ם אֶת־נַחֲלָת֖וֹ לְבִתּֽוֹ׃ [Numbers 27:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.27.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:990` 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 27:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.989/) - next →: [Numbers 27:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.991/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 27:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.27.8/)