--- title: Numbers 8:26 — but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to ke… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: 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.' Who acts: Levites, thou. 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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 — Levites, thou — and what happens in the verse to tent, charge, manner, charges, 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. וְשֵׁרֵ֨ת אֶת־אֶחָ֜יו בְּאֹ֤הֶל מוֹעֵד֙ לִשְׁמֹ֣ר מִשְׁמֶ֔רֶת וַעֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֣א יַעֲבֹ֑ד כָּ֛כָה תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לַלְוִיִּ֖ם בְּמִשְׁמְרֹתָֽם׃פ [but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, but they shall do no manner of service.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.375/) [Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.376/) ## 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:NUM:360 # text = וְשֵׁרֵ֨ת אֶת־אֶחָ֜יו בְּאֹ֤הֶל מוֹעֵד֙ לִשְׁמֹ֣ר מִשְׁמֶ֔רֶת וַעֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֣א יַעֲבֹ֑ד כָּ֛כָה תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לַלְוִיִּ֖ם בְּמִשְׁמְרֹתָֽם׃פ # verse = NUM.8.26 1-2 וְשֵׁרֵ֨ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_8:26!1|MId=o040080260011|Strong=2050b 2 שֵׁרֵ֨ת שָׁרַת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.will.serve|Ref=NUM_8:26!1|MId=o040080260012|Strong=8334|Frame=A0:040080240033;A1:040080260031;|Type=weqatal 3 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NUM_8:26!2|MId=o040080260021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 4-5 אֶחָ֜יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 אֶחָ֜י אָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obj _ Gloss=brothers|Ref=NUM_8:26!3|MId=o040080260031|Strong=0251 5 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=NUM_8:26!3|MId=o040080260032|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 6-7 בְּאֹ֤הֶל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=NUM_8:26!4|MId=o040080260041|Strong=0871a 7 אֹ֤הֶל אֹהֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=the.tent|Ref=NUM_8:26!4|MId=o040080260042|Strong=0168 8 מוֹעֵד֙ מוֹעֵד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.meeting|Ref=NUM_8:26!5|MId=o040080260051|Strong=4150 9-10 לִשְׁמֹ֣ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=NUM_8:26!6|MId=o040080260061|Strong=3807a 10 שְׁמֹ֣ר שָׁמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 2 advcl _ Gloss=keeping|Ref=NUM_8:26!6|MId=o040080260062|Strong=8104|Frame=A0:040080240033;A1:040080260071;|Type=infinitive_construct 11 מִשְׁמֶ֔רֶת מִשְׁמֶרֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 obj _ Gloss=a.duty|Ref=NUM_8:26!7|MId=o040080260071|Strong=4931 12-13 וַעֲבֹדָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_8:26!8|MId=o040080260081|Strong=2050b 13 עֲבֹדָ֖ה עֲבֹדָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 15 obj _ Gloss=service|Ref=NUM_8:26!8|MId=o040080260082|Strong=5656 14 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 15 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=NUM_8:26!9|MId=o040080260091|Strong=3808|Type=negative 15 יַעֲבֹ֑ד עָבַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.will.serve|Ref=NUM_8:26!10|MId=o040080260101|Strong=5647|Frame=A0:040080240033;A1:040080260082;|Type=yiqtol 16 כָּ֛כָה כָּכָה ADV _ _ 17 advmod _ Gloss=thus|Ref=NUM_8:26!11|MId=o040080260111|Strong=3602 17 תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 parataxis _ Gloss=you.will.do|Ref=NUM_8:26!12|MId=o040080260121|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:040080230041;|Type=yiqtol 18-20 לַלְוִיִּ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_8:26!13|MId=o040080260131|Strong=3807a 19 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_8:26!13|MId=o040080260131ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 לְוִיִּ֖ם לֵוִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 17 obl _ Gloss=Levites|Ref=NUM_8:26!13|MId=o040080260132|Strong=3881|Type=gentilic 21-23 בְּמִשְׁמְרֹתָֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=NUM_8:26!14|MId=o040080260141|Strong=0871a 22 מִשְׁמְרֹת מִשְׁמֶרֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 17 obl _ Gloss=duties|Ref=NUM_8:26!14|MId=o040080260142|Strong=4931 23 ָֽם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=NUM_8:26!14|MId=o040080260143|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=NUM_8:26!14|SpaceAfter=No 25 פ פ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=NUM_8:26!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | שֵׁרֵת *he will serve* | weqatal · piel | | אֶחָי *brothers* | | | | שְׁמֹר *keeping* | infinitive construct · qal | | מִשְׁמֶרֶת *a duty* | | | | **not** יַעֲבֹד *he will serve* | yiqtol · qal | | עֲבֹדָה *service* | | | | תַּעֲשֶׂה *you will do* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | 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} וִישַׁמֵשׁ עִם אֲחוֹהִי בְּמַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא לְמִטַּר מַטָרָא וּפוּלְחָנָא לָא יִפְלָח כְּדֵין תַּעֲבֵיד לְלֵוָאֵי בְּמַטְרַתְהוֹן 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. [but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, but they shall do no manner of service.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.375/) 2. [Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.376/) **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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