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title: Numbers 8:13 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering unto the LORD. Who acts: thou. Numbers 8:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 8:13 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering unto the LORD.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** set, offer · **To what, where:** Levites

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This is Numbers 8:13 · 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:362
# text = And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering unto the LORD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Levites	Levite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
22	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **set** | shall | thou | the Levites |  |  | before Aaron and Aaron's sons |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent levite=Theme before aaron=Destination |
| 2 | **offer** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | Levites *= levite* |  |  |  | for a wave offering *goal*; unto the LORD | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent they=Theme for offering=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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וְהַֽעֲמַדְתָּ֙ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם לִפְנֵ֥י אַהֲרֹ֖ן וְלִפְנֵ֣י בָנָ֑יו וְהֵנַפְתָּ֥ אֹתָ֛ם תְּנוּפָ֖ה לַֽיהוָֽה׃

[Numbers 8:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.13/)

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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:362` 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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