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title: Numbers 3:33 (JPS 1917) — Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mush… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites; these are the families of Merari. Who acts: these. Numbers 3:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 3:33 · JPS 1917

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Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.

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**Who acts:** these · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** family, families

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This is Numbers 3:33 · 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 (these), 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:121
# text = Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Merari	Merari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Mahlites	Mahlites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Mushites	Mushites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Merari	Merari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | past |  | the family and the family of the Mushites |  |  |  | of Merari; of the Mahlites | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | these | the families |  |  |  | of Merari | tree rules |

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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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לִמְרָרִ֕י מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הַמַּחְלִ֔י וּמִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַמּוּשִׁ֑י אֵ֥לֶּה הֵ֖ם מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת מְרָרִֽי׃

[Numbers 3:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.33/)

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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:121` 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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