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title: Numbers 8:2 (JPS 1917) — 'Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him: When thou lightest the lamps, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him: When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick.' Who acts: you, thou, seven lamps. Numbers 8:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 8:2 · JPS 1917

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'Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him: When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick.'

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**Who acts:** you, thou, seven lamps · **What happens:** speak, say, light, give · **To what, where:** lamps, light, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 8:2 · 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, thou, seven lamps), 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:351
# text = 'Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him: When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lightest	light	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
22	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Aaron | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Aaron | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **light** | present | thou | the lamps |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product |
| 4 | **give** | shall | the seven lamps | light |  | front of the candlestick |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |

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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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דַּבֵּר֙ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֔ן וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֵלָ֑יו בְּהַעֲלֹֽתְךָ֙ אֶת־הַנֵּרֹ֔ת אֶל־מוּל֙ פְּנֵ֣י הַמְּנוֹרָ֔ה יָאִ֖ירוּ שִׁבְעַ֥ת הַנֵּרֽוֹת׃

[Numbers 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.2/)

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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:351` 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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