Numbers 8:26 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.'
Who acts: thou, Levites · What happens: do, touch, charge · To what, where: charges
This is Numbers 8:26 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, Levites), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 Levites | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Levites | det |
| 7 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Levites | acl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 charges | nmod:poss |
| 10 | charges | charge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 touching | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall | thou | unto the Levites; thus property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | the Levites not said here | Levites's charges | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme charge=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | charge | Levites = levite | nom charge «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
וְשֵׁרֵ֨ת אֶת־אֶחָ֜יו בְּאֹ֤הֶל מוֹעֵד֙ לִשְׁמֹ֣ר מִשְׁמֶ֔רֶת וַעֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֣א יַעֲבֹ֑ד כָּ֛כָה תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לַלְוִיִּ֖ם בְּמִשְׁמְרֹתָֽם׃פ
Numbers 8:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, but they shall do no manner of service.
- Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NUM:376 of Mova's parse database.
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