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title: Numbers 4:6 (JPS 1917) — and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over… · tree and pragmatics
description: and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall set the staves thereof. Numbers 4:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 4:6 · JPS 1917

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and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall set the staves thereof.

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**What happens:** put, spread, set · **To what, where:** covering, cloth, sealskin, staves

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This is Numbers 4:6 · 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: 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:145
# text = and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall set the staves thereof.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	staves	stave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	25	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **put** | shall |  | a covering of sealskin |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent covering=Goal |
| 2 | **spread** | shall |  | a cloth  all |  | sealskin |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over it=Destination |
| 3 | **set** | shall |  | the staves |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient stave=Result |

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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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וְנָתְנ֣וּ עָלָ֗יו כְּסוּי֙ ע֣וֹר תַּ֔חַשׁ וּפָרְשׂ֧וּ בֶֽגֶד־כְּלִ֛יל תְּכֵ֖לֶת מִלְמָ֑עְלָה וְשָׂמ֖וּ בַּדָּֽיו׃

[Numbers 4:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.6/)

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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:145` 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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