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title: Numbers 8:24 (JPS 1917) — 'This is that which pertaineth unto the Levites: from twenty and fiv… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'This is that which pertaineth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the service in the work of the tent of meeting; Who acts: This, Levites, tent. Numbers 8:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 8:24 · JPS 1917

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'This is that which pertaineth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the service in the work of the tent of meeting;

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**Who acts:** This, Levites, tent · **What happens:** be, pertain, go in, perform, work · **To what, where:** that, old, service, work

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This is Numbers 8:24 · 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 (This, Levites, tent), 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:373
# text = 'This is that which pertaineth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the service in the work of the tent of meeting;
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pertaineth	pertain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pertain** | present |  |  |  |  |  | unto the Levites | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go in** | shall | Levites *= levite* |  |  | old |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from old=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **perform** | to-infinitive | Levites *= levite* *not said here* | the service |  | the work of the tent of meeting |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme |
| 5 | **work** |  | the tent of meeting |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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זֹ֖את אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַלְוִיִּ֑ם מִבֶּן֩ חָמֵ֨שׁ וְעֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָמַ֔עְלָה יָבוֹא֙ לִצְבֹ֣א צָבָ֔א בַּעֲבֹדַ֖ת אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד׃

[Numbers 8:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.24/)

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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:373` 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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