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title: Numbers 4:13 (JPS 1917) — And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purp… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon. Who acts: staves. Numbers 4:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 4:13 · JPS 1917

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And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon.

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**Who acts:** staves · **What happens:** take away, spread · **To what, where:** ashes, altar, purple cloth

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This is Numbers 4:13 · 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 (staves), 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:152
# text = And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 away** | shall | staves *= stave* | the ashes |  | the altar |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme from altar=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **spread** | infinitive | staves *= stave* *not said here* | a purple cloth |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloth=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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וְדִשְּׁנ֖וּ אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ וּפָרְשׂ֣וּ עָלָ֔יו בֶּ֖גֶד אַרְגָּמָֽן׃

[Numbers 4:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.13/)

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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:152` 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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