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title: Numbers 35:7 (JPS 1917) — All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and… · tree and pragmatics
description: All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with the open land about them. Who acts: ye, cities. Numbers 35:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 35:7 · JPS 1917

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All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with the open land about them.

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**Who acts:** ye, cities · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** cities, Levites, forty cities

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This is Numbers 35:7 · 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 (ye, cities), 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:1283
# text = All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with the open land about them.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
13	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | shall | ye | all cities | the Levites |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to levite=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | all cities | forty cities |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | shall | ye | cities *= city* |  |  |  | with the open land about cities | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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כָּל־הֶעָרִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר תִּתְּנוּ֙ לַלְוִיִּ֔ם אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנֶ֖ה עִ֑יר אֶתְהֶ֖ן וְאֶת־מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽן׃

[Numbers 35:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.7/)

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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:1283` 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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