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title: Numbers 8:14 (JPS 1917) — Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Isra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine. Who acts: thou, Levites. Numbers 8:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 8:14 · JPS 1917

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Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine.

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**Who acts:** thou, Levites · **What happens:** separate, be · **To what, where:** Levites, Mine

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This is Numbers 8:14 · 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), 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:363
# text = Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	separate	separate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	Mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | shall | thou | the Levites |  |  |  | from the children of Israel; thus *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent levite=Patient from child=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | the Levites | Mine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וְהִבְדַּלְתָּ֙ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם מִתּ֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהָ֥יוּ לִ֖י הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

[Numbers 8:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.14/)

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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:363` 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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