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title: Numbers 3:23 (JPS 1917) — The families of the Gershonites were to pitch behind the tabernacle… · tree and pragmatics
description: The families of the Gershonites were to pitch behind the tabernacle westward; Who acts: families. Numbers 3:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 3:23 · JPS 1917

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The families of the Gershonites were to pitch behind the tabernacle westward;

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**Who acts:** families · **What happens:** pitch · **To what, where:** tabernacle

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This is Numbers 3:23 · 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 (families), 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:111
# text = The families of the Gershonites were to pitch behind the tabernacle westward;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Gershonites	gershonite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pitch	pitch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pitch** | past | the families of the Gershonites |  |  | the tabernacle |  | westward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent behind tabernacle=Destination |

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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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מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֑י אַחֲרֵ֧י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ן יַחֲנ֖וּ יָֽמָּה׃

[Numbers 3:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.23/)

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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:111` 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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