--- title: Numbers 8:16 (JPS 1917) — For they are wholly given unto Me from among the children of Israel;… · tree and pragmatics description: For they are wholly given unto Me from among the children of Israel; instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto Me. Who acts: I. 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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 (I), 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:365 # text = For they are wholly given unto Me from among the children of Israel; instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto Me. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 wholly wholly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 advcl _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 among among ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 15 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 17 case _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 obl _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 openeth open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 womb womb NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 amod _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 born bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 35 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 unto unto ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 37 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 | **give** | present · passive | | Levites *= levite* | | | | unto Me; from the children of Israel; wholly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **open** | present | | the womb | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location womb=Theme | | 3 | **take** | present · perfect | I | Levites *= levite* | | | | instead all; unto Me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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} כִּי֩ נְתֻנִ֨ים נְתֻנִ֥ים הֵ֙מָּה֙ לִ֔י מִתּ֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל תַּחַת֩ פִּטְרַ֨ת כָּל־רֶ֜חֶם בְּכ֥וֹר כֹּל֙ מִבְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לָקַ֥חְתִּי אֹתָ֖ם לִֽי׃ [Numbers 8:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:365` 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 8:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.364/) - next →: [Numbers 8:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.366/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 8:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.16/)