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title: Numbers 8:25 (JPS 1917) — and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service o… · tree and pragmatics
description: and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service of the work, and shall serve no more; Who acts: Levites. Numbers 8:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 8:25 · JPS 1917

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and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service of the work, and shall serve no more;

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**Who acts:** Levites · **What happens:** return, serve, service · **To what, where:** age, work

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This is Numbers 8:25 · 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 (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:374
# text = and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service of the work, and shall serve no more;
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	no	no	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **return** | shall | Levites *= levite* |  |  |  | from the age of fifty years | from the service of the work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from age=Initial\_Location from service=Destination |
| 2 | **serve** | shall | Levites *= levite* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **service** |  |  | the work |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וּמִבֶּן֙ חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה יָשׁ֖וּב מִצְּבָ֣א הָעֲבֹדָ֑ה וְלֹ֥א יַעֲבֹ֖ד עֽוֹד׃

[Numbers 8:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.25/)

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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:374` 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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