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title: Numbers 35:2 (JPS 1917) — 'Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and open land round about the cities shall ye give unto the Levites. Who acts: you, children, ye. Numbers 35:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Numbers 35:2 · JPS 1917

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'Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and open land round about the cities shall ye give unto the Levites.

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**Who acts:** you, children, ye · **What happens:** command, give, dwell, inherit, possess · **To what, where:** children, cities, open land, possession · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 35:2 · 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 (you, children, ye), 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:1277
# text = 'Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and open land round about the cities shall ye give unto the Levites.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Command	command	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Levites	Levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
28	round	round	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Levites	Levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | imperative | you *not said here* | the children of Israel |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | present | children *= child* | cities |  |  |  | unto the Levites; of the inheritance of children's possession | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | cities *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | shall | ye | open land |  |  |  | about the cities; unto the Levites | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 5 | **inherit** |  |  | children's possession |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **possess** |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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צַו֮ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ וְנָתְנ֣וּ לַלְוִיִּ֗ם מִֽנַּחֲלַ֛ת אֲחֻזָּתָ֖ם עָרִ֣ים לָשָׁ֑בֶת וּמִגְרָ֗שׁ לֶֽעָרִים֙ סְבִיבֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם תִּתְּנ֖וּ לַלְוִיִּֽם׃

[Numbers 35:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.2/)

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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:1277` 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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