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title: Numbers 31:30 (JPS 1917) — And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one drawn out… · tree and pragmatics
description: And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them unto the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.' Who acts: thou, Levites. Numbers 31:30 in J
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# Numbers 31:30 · JPS 1917

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And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them unto the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.'

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**Who acts:** thou, Levites · **What happens:** take, draw out, give, keep, charge · **To what, where:** one, fifty, flocks, charge, tabernacle

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This is Numbers 31:30 · 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 (thou, Levites), 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:1124
# text = And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them unto the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
8	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	beeves	beef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Levites	Levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
61	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | thou | one of the persons and the beeves and the asses and the flocks |  |  |  | of the children of Israel's half | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme of half=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **draw out** | participle |  | every fifty |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifty=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | flocks *= flock* |  |  |  | unto the Levites | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | present | the Levites | the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 5 | **charge** |  |  | the tabernacle of the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וּמִמַּחֲצִ֨ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל תִּקַּ֣ח ׀ אֶחָ֣ד ׀ אָחֻ֣ז מִן־הַחֲמִשִּׁ֗ים מִן־הָאָדָ֧ם מִן־הַבָּקָ֛ר מִן־הַחֲמֹרִ֥ים וּמִן־הַצֹּ֖אן מִכָּל־הַבְּהֵמָ֑ה וְנָתַתָּ֤ה אֹתָם֙ לַלְוִיִּ֔ם שֹׁמְרֵ֕י מִשְׁמֶ֖רֶת מִשְׁכַּ֥ן יְהוָֽה׃

[Numbers 31:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.30/)

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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:1124` of Mova's parse database.

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