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title: Deuteronomy 31:25 (JPS 1917) — that Moses commanded the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant… · 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 JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 31:25 · JPS 1917

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that Moses commanded the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying:

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**Who acts:** Moses, Levites, LORD · **What happens:** command, bear, say, covenant · **To what, where:** Levites, ark · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 31:25 · JPS 1917 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 (Moses, Levites, LORD), 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:DEU:879
# text = that Moses commanded the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying:
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | Moses | the Levites |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent levite=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | past | the Levites | the ark of the covenant of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ark=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Moses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **covenant** |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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}

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וַיְצַ֤ו מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם נֹ֥שְׂאֵ֛יאֲר֥וֹן בְּרִית־יְהוָ֖ה לֵאמֹֽר׃

[Deuteronomy 31:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.31.25/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:879` 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.

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