--- title: Numbers 8:20 (JPS 1917) — Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children… · tree and pragmatics description: Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites; according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them. Who acts: LORD. 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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 (LORD), 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:369 # text = Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites; according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them. 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 congregation congregation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 unto unto ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Levites levite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 case _ _ 23 unto unto ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 obl _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 touching touch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Levites levite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 unto unto ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **touch** | gerund | the LORD *not said here* | the Levites | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme levite=Co-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} וַיַּ֨עַשׂ מֹשֶׁ֧ה וְאַהֲרֹ֛ן וְכָל־עֲדַ֥ת בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לַלְוִיִּ֑ם כְּ֠כֹל אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה אֶת־מֹשֶׁה֙ לַלְוִיִּ֔ם כֵּן־עָשׂ֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ [Numbers 8:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:369` 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 8:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.368/) - next →: [Numbers 8:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.370/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 8:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.20/)