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title: Numbers 4:22 (JPS 1917) — 'Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses,… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families; Who acts: you. Numbers 4:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 4:22 · JPS 1917

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'Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, sum · **To what, where:** sum, sons

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This is Numbers 4:22 · 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), 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:162
# text = 'Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Gershon	Gershon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sum of the sons of Gershon |  |  |  | by houses 's sons's fathers; by houses's families | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme |
| 2 | **sum** |  |  | the sons of Gershon |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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נָשֹׂ֗א אֶת־רֹ֛אשׁ בְּנֵ֥י גֵרְשׁ֖וֹן גַּם־הֵ֑ם לְבֵ֥ית אֲבֹתָ֖ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃

[Numbers 4:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.22/)

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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:162` 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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