--- title: Numbers 3:39 (JPS 1917) — All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered… · tree and pragmatics description: All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand. Who acts: Moses, All. 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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, All), 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:127 # text = All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand. 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 numbered number VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Levites levite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 10 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 numbered number VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 appos _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 upward upward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 36 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 conj _ _ 39 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **number** | past · passive | | | | | | of the Levites | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **number** | past | Moses and Aaron | the Levites | | the commandment of the LORD | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | All | twenty thousand | | | | by Aaron's families | tree rules | | 4 | **command** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} כָּל־פְּקוּדֵ֨י הַלְוִיִּ֜ם אֲשֶׁר֩ פָּקַ֨ד מֹשֶׁ֧ה וְׄאַׄהֲׄרֹ֛ׄןׄעַל־פִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם כָּל־זָכָר֙ מִבֶּן־חֹ֣דֶשׁ וָמַ֔עְלָה שְׁנַ֥יִם וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים אָֽלֶף׃ס [Numbers 3:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.39/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:127` 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. - ← previous: [Numbers 3:38 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.126/) - next →: [Numbers 3:40 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.128/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 3:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.39/)