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title: Numbers 4:19 (JPS 1917) — but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they ap… · tree and pragmatics
description: but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden; Who acts: you, Levites, Aaron. Numbers 4:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Numbers 4:19 · JPS 1917

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but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;

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**Who acts:** you, Levites, Aaron · **What happens:** do, live, not die, approach, go in, appoint · **To what, where:** Levites

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This is Numbers 4:19 · 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, Levites, Aaron), 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:159
# text = but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	approach	approach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	appoint	appoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Levites *= levite*; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | may | Levites *= levite* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **die** | infinitive | Levites *= levite* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **approach** | present | Levites *= levite* |  |  |  |  | unto the holy things | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go in** | shall | Aaron and Aaron's sons |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **appoint** | infinitive | Aaron and Aaron's sons *not said here* | Levites *= levite* |  |  |  | to Aaron's service and Aaron's burden | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme to service=Attribute |
| 7 | **service** |  | Aaron |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **burden** |  | Aaron |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition 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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וְזֹ֣את ׀ עֲשׂ֣וּ לָהֶ֗ם וְחָיוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א יָמֻ֔תוּ בְּגִשְׁתָּ֖ם אֶת־קֹ֣דֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁ֑ים אַהֲרֹ֤ן וּבָנָיו֙ יָבֹ֔אוּ וְשָׂמ֣וּ אוֹתָ֗ם אִ֥ישׁ אִ֛ישׁ עַל־עֲבֹדָת֖וֹ וְאֶל־מַשָּׂאֽוֹ׃

[Numbers 4:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.19/)

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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:159` 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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