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title: Numbers 1:2 (JPS 1917) — 'Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel,… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, by their polls; Who acts: you, names. Numbers 1:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 1:2 · JPS 1917

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'Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, by their polls;

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**Who acts:** you, names · **What happens:** take, accord, sum, poll · **To what, where:** ye, congregation

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This is Numbers 1:2 · 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 (you, names), 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:NUM:1
# text = 'Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, by their polls;
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	polls	poll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | ye |  |  |  | by children's families; by families's fathers's houses; accord the number of names by names's polls | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument ye=Theme sum=Destination |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sum** |  |  | all congregation of the children of Israel |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **poll** |  | names *= name* |  |  |  |  |  | nom poll «cognition transitive»: poss=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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שְׂא֗וּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֙ כָּל־עֲדַ֣ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר שֵׁמ֔וֹת כָּל־זָכָ֖ר לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃

[Numbers 1:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:1` 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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