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title: Numbers 3:50 (JPS 1917) — from the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money: a t… · tree and pragmatics
description: from the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money: a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. Who acts: Israel. Numbers 3:50 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 3:50 · JPS 1917

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from the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money: a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

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**Who acts:** Israel · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** money, first born

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This is Numbers 3:50 · 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 (Israel), 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:138
# text = from the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money: a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	born	first-born	NOUN	VBN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
24	shekels	shekel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shekel	shekel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **take** | past | Israel | the money |  | the first born of the children of Israel |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent money=Theme from first-born=Initial\_Location |

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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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מֵאֵ֗ת בְּכ֛וֹר בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לָקַ֣ח אֶת־הַכָּ֑סֶף חֲמִשָּׁ֨ה וְשִׁשִּׁ֜ים וּשְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֛וֹת וָאֶ֖לֶף בְּשֶׁ֥קֶל הַקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃

[Numbers 3:50: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.50/)

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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:138` 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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