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title: Numbers 3:38 (JPS 1917) — And those that were to pitch before the tabernacle eastward, before… · tree and pragmatics
description: And those that were to pitch before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, were Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary, even the charge for the children of Israel; and the common man that drew nigh was to be put to death. Who acts: those
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# Numbers 3:38 · JPS 1917

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And those that were to pitch before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, were Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary, even the charge for the children of Israel; and the common man that drew nigh was to be put to death.

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**Who acts:** those, common man · **What happens:** be, keep, draw, put, charge · **To what, where:** Moses, charge, common man, sanctuary

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This is Numbers 3:38 · 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 (those, common man), 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:126
# text = And those that were to pitch before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, were Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary, even the charge for the children of Israel; and the common man that drew nigh was to be put to death.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pitch	pitch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	eastward	eastward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sunrising	sunrising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
52	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **is** | past | those *not said here* |  |  |  | before the tabernacle; before the tent of meeting | eastward, pitch *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | those | Moses and Aaron and Moses's sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund | those *not said here* | the charge of the sanctuary |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | past | the common man |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **put** | past · passive |  | the common man |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 6 | **charge** |  |  | the sanctuary |  |  |  |  | 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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וְהַחֹנִ֣ים לִפְנֵ֣י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֡ן קֵ֣דְמָה לִפְנֵי֩ אֹֽהֶל־מוֹעֵ֨ד ׀ מִזְרָ֜חָה מֹשֶׁ֣ה ׀ וְאַהֲרֹ֣ן וּבָנָ֗יו שֹֽׁמְרִים֙ מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת הַמִּקְדָּ֔שׁ לְמִשְׁמֶ֖רֶת בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהַזָּ֥ר הַקָּרֵ֖ב יוּמָֽת׃

[Numbers 3:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.38/)

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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:126` of Mova's parse database.

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