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title: Numbers 1:19 (JPS 1917) — As the LORD commanded Moses, so did he number them in the wilderness… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the LORD commanded Moses, so did he number them in the wilderness of Sinai. Who acts: LORD. Numbers 1:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 1:19 · JPS 1917

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As the LORD commanded Moses, so did he number them in the wilderness of Sinai.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** command, number · **To what, where:** Moses, names, wilderness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 1:19 · 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 (LORD), 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:18
# text = As the LORD commanded Moses, so did he number them in the wilderness of Sinai.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Sinai	Sinai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=Theme |
| 2 | **number** | past · do-support | LORD | names *= name* |  |  |  | in the wilderness of Sinai *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent they=Theme in wilderness=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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כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַֽיִּפְקְדֵ֖ם בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר סִינָֽי׃פ

[Numbers 1:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.19/)

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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:18` 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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