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title: Numbers 3:15 (JPS 1917) — 'Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their fami… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.' Who acts: you, male. Numbers 3:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 3:15 · JPS 1917

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'Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.'

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**Who acts:** you, male · **What happens:** number · **To what, where:** children

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This is Numbers 3:15 · 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, male), 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:102
# text = 'Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Number	number	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	number	number	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **number** | imperative | you *not said here* | the children of Levi |  |  |  | by children's fathers's houses; by children's families | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 2 | **number** | shall | every male | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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פְּקֹד֙ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י לֵוִ֔י לְבֵ֥ית אֲבֹתָ֖ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם כָּל־זָכָ֛ר מִבֶּן־חֹ֥דֶשׁ וָמַ֖עְלָה תִּפְקְדֵֽם׃

[Numbers 3:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.15/)

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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:102` 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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