--- title: Numbers 4:49 (JPS 1917) — According to the commandment of the LORD they were appointed by the… · tree and pragmatics description: According to the commandment of the LORD they were appointed by the hand of Moses, every one to his service, and to his burden; they were also numbered, as the LORD commanded Moses. Who acts: hand, LORD. 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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 (hand, 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:189 # text = According to the commandment of the LORD they were appointed by the hand of Moses, every one to his service, and to his burden; they were also numbered, as the LORD commanded Moses. 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:agent _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 burden burden NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 30 also also ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 numbered number VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 37 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **appoint** | past · passive | the hand of Moses | Moses | | | | accord the commandment of the LORD | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **number** | past · passive | | Moses | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=Theme | | 5 | **command** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **service** | | LORD | | | | | | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **burden** | | LORD | | | | | | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} עַל־פִּ֨י יְהוָ֜ה פָּקַ֤ד אוֹתָם֙ בְּיַד־מֹשֶׁ֔ה אִ֥ישׁ אִ֛ישׁ עַל־עֲבֹדָת֖וֹ וְעַל־מַשָּׂא֑וֹ וּפְקֻדָ֕יו אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃פ [Numbers 4:49: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.49/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:189` 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. - ← previous: [Numbers 4:48 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.188/) - next →: [Numbers 5:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.190/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 4:49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.49/)