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title: Numbers 3:31 — and their charge the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and th… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: and their charge the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith the priests minister, and the screen, and all that pertaineth to the service thereof; Who acts: priests, families. Numbers 3:31 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos,
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# Numbers 3:31 בְּמִדְבַּר

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**Who acts:** priests, families · **What happens:** minister, pertain, charge

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This is Numbers 3:31 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 — priests, families — and what happens in the verse, 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 36 chapters of Numbers on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וּמִשְׁמַרְתָּ֗ם הָאָרֹ֤ן וְהַשֻּׁלְחָן֙ וְהַמְּנֹרָ֣ה וְהַֽמִּזְבְּחֹ֔ת וּכְלֵ֣י הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְשָׁרְת֖וּ בָּהֶ֑ם וְהַ֨מָּסָ֔ךְ וְכֹ֖ל עֲבֹדָתֽוֹ׃

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[and their charge the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith the priests minister, and the screen, and all that pertaineth to the service thereof;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.119/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:NUM:118
# text = וּמִשְׁמַרְתָּ֗ם הָאָרֹ֤ן וְהַשֻּׁלְחָן֙ וְהַמְּנֹרָ֣ה וְהַֽמִּזְבְּחֹ֔ת וּכְלֵ֣י הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְשָׁרְת֖וּ בָּהֶ֑ם וְהַ֨מָּסָ֔ךְ וְכֹ֖ל עֲבֹדָתֽוֹ׃
# verse = NUM.3.31
1-3	וּמִשְׁמַרְתָּ֗ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	5	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_3:31!1|MId=o040030310011|Strong=2050b
2	מִשְׁמַרְתּ	מִשְׁמֶרֶת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Gloss=duty|Ref=NUM_3:31!1|MId=o040030310012|Strong=4931
3	ָ֗ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=NUM_3:31!1|MId=o040030310013|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
4-5	הָאָרֹ֤ן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	5	det	_	Gloss=[was].the|Ref=NUM_3:31!2|MId=o040030310021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
5	אָרֹ֤ן	אֲרוֹן	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=ark|Ref=NUM_3:31!2|MId=o040030310022|Strong=0727
6-8	וְהַשֻּׁלְחָן֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	8	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_3:31!3|MId=o040030310031|Strong=2050b
7	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	8	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_3:31!3|MId=o040030310032|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
8	שֻּׁלְחָן֙	שֻׁלְחָן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Gloss=table|Ref=NUM_3:31!3|MId=o040030310033|Strong=7979
9-11	וְהַמְּנֹרָ֣ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	11	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_3:31!4|MId=o040030310041|Strong=2050b
10	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	11	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_3:31!4|MId=o040030310042|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
11	מְּנֹרָ֣ה	מְנוֹרָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Gloss=lampstand|Ref=NUM_3:31!4|MId=o040030310043|Strong=4501
12-14	וְהַֽמִּזְבְּחֹ֔ת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	14	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_3:31!5|MId=o040030310051|Strong=2050b
13	הַֽ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	14	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_3:31!5|MId=o040030310052|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
14	מִּזְבְּחֹ֔ת	מִזְבֵּחַ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Gloss=altars|Ref=NUM_3:31!5|MId=o040030310053|Strong=4196
15-16	וּכְלֵ֣י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	16	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_3:31!6|MId=o040030310061|Strong=2050b
16	כְלֵ֣י	כְּלִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Gloss=the.equipment(s)|Ref=NUM_3:31!6|MId=o040030310062|Strong=3627
17-18	הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	18	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_3:31!7|MId=o040030310071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
18	קֹּ֔דֶשׁ	קֹדֶשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.holy.place|Ref=NUM_3:31!7|MId=o040030310072|Strong=6944
19	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	20	mark	_	Gloss=which|Ref=NUM_3:31!8|MId=o040030310081|Strong=0834|Type=relative
20	יְשָׁרְת֖וּ	שָׁרַת	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=3	16	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=they.will.serve|Ref=NUM_3:31!9|MId=o040030310091|Strong=8334|Frame=A0:;|Type=yiqtol
21-22	בָּהֶ֑ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
21	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	22	case	_	Gloss=by|Ref=NUM_3:31!10|MId=o040030310101|Strong=0871a
22	ָהֶ֑ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	Gloss=them|Ref=NUM_3:31!10|MId=o040030310102|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
23-25	וְהַ֨מָּסָ֔ךְ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
23	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	25	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_3:31!11|MId=o040030310111|Strong=2050b
24	הַ֨	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	25	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_3:31!11|MId=o040030310112|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
25	מָּסָ֔ךְ	מָסָךְ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Gloss=screen|Ref=NUM_3:31!11|MId=o040030310113|Strong=4539
26-27	וְכֹ֖ל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
26	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	27	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_3:31!12|MId=o040030310121|Strong=2050b
27	כֹ֖ל	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Gloss=all|Ref=NUM_3:31!12|MId=o040030310122|Strong=3605
28-29	עֲבֹדָתֽוֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
28	עֲבֹדָת	עֲבֹדָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	27	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=service|Ref=NUM_3:31!13|MId=o040030310131|Strong=5656
29	ֽוֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=its|Ref=NUM_3:31!13|MId=o040030310132|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
30	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	29	punct	_	Ref=NUM_3:31!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יְשָׁרְתוּ *they will serve* | yiqtol · piel |  |  |  |  |

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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}

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וּמַטַרְתְּהוֹן אֲרוֹנָא וּפְתוֹרָא וּמְנַרְתָּא וּמַדְבְּחַיָא וּמָנֵי קוּדְשָׁא דִי יְשַׁמְשׁוּן בְּהוֹן וּפְרָסָא וְכֹל פוּלְחָנֵהּ

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [and their charge the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith the priests minister, and the screen, and all that pertaineth to the service thereof;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.119/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:NUM:118`.

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