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title: Numbers 31:47 (JPS 1917) — even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of e… · tree and pragmatics
description: even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses. Who acts: Moses, Levites, LORD. Numbers 31:47 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tre
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# Numbers 31:47 · JPS 1917

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even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

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**Who acts:** Moses, Levites, LORD · **What happens:** take, draw out, give, keep, command, charge · **To what, where:** one, fifty, men, charge, Moses, tabernacle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 31:47 · 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:NUM:1141
# text = even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
1	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc:preconj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Levites	Levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
48	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **take** | past | Moses | one |  |  |  | of the children of Israel's half | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme of child=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **draw out** | participle |  | every fifty of man and beast |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifty=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | Moses *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  | unto the Levites | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | past | the Levites | the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 5 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=Theme |
| 6 | **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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וַיִּקַּ֨ח מֹשֶׁ֜ה מִמַּחֲצִ֣ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֶת־הָֽאָחֻז֙ אֶחָ֣ד מִן־הַחֲמִשִּׁ֔ים מִן־הָאָדָ֖ם וּמִן־הַבְּהֵמָ֑ה וַיִּתֵּ֨ן אֹתָ֜ם לַלְוִיִּ֗ם שֹֽׁמְרֵי֙ מִשְׁמֶ֙רֶת֙ מִשְׁכַּ֣ן יְהוָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃

[Numbers 31:47: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.47/)

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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:1141` of Mova's parse database.

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