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title: Numbers 31:54 (JPS 1917) — And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD. Who acts: Moses. Numbers 31:54 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 31:54 · JPS 1917

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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.

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**Who acts:** Moses · **What happens:** take, bring · **To what, where:** gold, priest, tent

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This is Numbers 31:54 · 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), 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:1148
# text = And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Eleazar	Eleazar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
6	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	memorial	memorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	before	before	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 and the Eleazar | the gold of the captains of thousands and hundreds |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Moses and the Eleazar *not said here* | priest |  | the tent of meeting | before the LORD | for a memorial for the children of Israel | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into tent=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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וַיִּקַּ֨ח מֹשֶׁ֜ה וְאֶלְעָזָ֤ר הַכֹּהֵן֙ אֶת־הַזָּהָ֔ב מֵאֵ֛ת שָׂרֵ֥י הָאֲלָפִ֖ים וְהַמֵּא֑וֹת וַיָּבִ֤אוּ אֹתוֹ֙ אֶל־אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֔ד זִכָּר֥וֹן לִבְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃פ

[Numbers 31:54: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.54/)

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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:1148` 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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