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title: Numbers 8:7 (JPS 1917) — And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the wate… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. Who acts: thou, Levites, razor. Numbers 8:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the 
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# Numbers 8:7 · JPS 1917

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And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

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**Who acts:** thou, Levites, razor · **What happens:** do, cleanse, sprinkle, let, cause, pass over · **To what, where:** Levites, water, razor, flesh, clothes

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This is Numbers 8:7 · 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, Levites, razor), 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:356
# text = And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	cleanse	cleanse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	purification	purification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	razor	razor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	37	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	cleanse	cleanse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
43	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	42	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | unto Levites; thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cleanse** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | Levites |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **sprinkle** | infinitive |  | the water of purification |  |  |  | upon Levites | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme upon they=Destination |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | Levites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cause** | infinitive | Levites *not said here* | a razor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pass over** | to-infinitive | a razor *not said here* | Levites's flesh |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive |  | Levites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **wash** | infinitive | Levites *not said here* | Levites's clothes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 9 | **cleanse** | infinitive |  | Levites |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |

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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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וְכֹֽה־תַעֲשֶׂ֤ה לָהֶם֙ לְטַֽהֲרָ֔ם הַזֵּ֥ה עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מֵ֣י חַטָּ֑את וְהֶעֱבִ֤ירוּ תַ֙עַר֙ עַל־כָּל־בְּשָׂרָ֔ם וְכִבְּס֥וּ בִגְדֵיהֶ֖ם וְהִטֶּהָֽרוּ׃

[Numbers 8:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.7/)

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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:356` of Mova's parse database.

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