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title: Numbers 4:24 (JPS 1917) — This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving a… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens: Who acts: This, families. Numbers 4:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 4:24 · JPS 1917

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This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

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**Who acts:** This, families · **What happens:** be, serving, bearing · **To what, where:** service, burdens

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This is Numbers 4:24 · 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 (This, families), 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:164
# text = This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Gershonites	Gershonite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	serving	serving	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	bearing	bearing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
17	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | This | the service |  |  |  | of the families of the Gershonites | tree rules |
| 2 | **serving** | gerund | the families of the Gershonites *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bearing** | gerund | the families of the Gershonites *not said here* | burdens |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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זֹ֣את עֲבֹדַ֔ת מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֑י לַעֲבֹ֖ד וּלְמַשָּֽׂא׃

[Numbers 4:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.24/)

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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:164` 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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