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title: Numbers 4:29 (JPS 1917) — As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them by their families,… · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them by their families, by their fathers' houses; Who acts: thou. Numbers 4:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 4:29 · JPS 1917

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As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them by their families, by their fathers' houses;

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** number · **To what, where:** sons

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This is Numbers 4:29 · 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 (thou), 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:169
# text = As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them by their families, by their fathers' houses;
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Merari	Merari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	number	number	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **number** | shall | thou | sons *= son* |  |  |  | as the sons of Merari *goal*; by sons's families; by sons's fathers's houses | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent they=Theme as son=Goal |

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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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בְּנֵ֖י מְרָרִ֑י לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֥ם לְבֵית־אֲבֹתָ֖ם תִּפְקֹ֥ד אֹתָֽם׃

[Numbers 4:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.29/)

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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:169` 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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