--- title: Deuteronomy 31:25 — that Moses commanded the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: that Moses commanded the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying: Who acts: Moses, Levites, LORD. Deuteronomy 31:25 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.31.25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Deuteronomy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/) / [chapter 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/31/) / 31:25 # Deuteronomy 31:25 דְּבָרִים **Who acts:** Moses, Levites, LORD · **What happens:** command, bear, say, covenant · **To what, where:** Levites, ark · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Deuteronomy 31:25 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Moses, Levites, LORD — and what happens in the verse to Levites, ark, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 34 chapters of Deuteronomy on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיְצַ֤ו מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם נֹ֥שְׂאֵ֛יאֲר֥וֹן בְּרִית־יְהוָ֖ה לֵאמֹֽר׃ [that Moses commanded the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.879/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:DEU:860 # text = וַיְצַ֤ו מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם נֹ֥שְׂאֵ֛יאֲר֥וֹן בְּרִית־יְהוָ֖ה לֵאמֹֽר׃ # verse = DEU.31.25 1-2 וַיְצַ֤ו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_31:25!1|MId=o050310250011|Strong=2050b 2 יְצַ֤ו צָוָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.commanded|Ref=DEU_31:25!1|MId=o050310250012|Strong=6680|Frame=A0:050310250021;A1:050310250042;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 מֹשֶׁה֙ מֹשֶׁה PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Moses|Ref=DEU_31:25!2|MId=o050310250021|Strong=4872 4 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=DEU_31:25!3|MId=o050310250031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 5-6 הַלְוִיִּ֔ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=DEU_31:25!4|MId=o050310250041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 לְוִיִּ֔ם לֵוִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obj _ Gloss=Levites|Ref=DEU_31:25!4|MId=o050310250042|Strong=3881|Type=gentilic 7-8 נֹ֥שְׂאֵ֛יאֲר֥וֹן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 נֹ֥שְׂאֵ֛י נָשָׂא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 6 appos _ Gloss=[who].carry|Ref=DEU_31:25!5|MId=o050310250051|Strong=5375|Frame=A0:050310250042;A1:050310250061;|Type=participle_active 8 אֲר֥וֹן אֲרוֹן NOUN _ Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=(of).the.ark|Ref=DEU_31:25!6|MId=o050310250061|Strong=0727 9 בְּרִית־ בְּרִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.the.covenant|Ref=DEU_31:25!7|MId=o050310250071|Strong=1285|SpaceAfter=No 10 יְהוָ֖ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=DEU_31:25!8|MId=o050310250081|Strong=3068 11-12 לֵאמֹֽר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 2 ccomp _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=DEU_31:25!9|MId=o050310250091|Strong=3807a 12 אמֹֽר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 11 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=DEU_31:25!9|MId=o050310250092|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:050310250021;|Type=infinitive_construct 13 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 11 punct _ Ref=DEU_31:25!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: a frame; the quote follows - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְצַו *he commanded* | wayyiqtol · piel | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* | לְוִיִּם *Levites* | | | | נֹשְׂאֵי *\[who\] carry* | participle active · qal | לְוִיִּם *Levites* | אֲרוֹן *(of) the ark* | | | | אמֹֽר | infinitive construct · qal | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} וּפַקִיד מֹשֶׁה יָת לֵוָאֵי נָטְלֵי אֲרוֹן קְיָמָא דַיְיָ לְמֵימָר The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [that Moses commanded the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.879/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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