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title: Numbers 8:26 (JPS 1917) — but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to ke… · tree and pragmatics
description: but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, but they shall do no manner of service. Who acts: Levites. Numbers 8:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 8:26 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, but they shall do no manner of service.

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**Who acts:** Levites · **What happens:** minister, keep, do · **To what, where:** tent, charge, manner

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This is Numbers 8:26 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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:375
# text = but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, but they shall do no manner of service.
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	minister	minister	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
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	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **minister** | shall |  |  |  | the tent of meeting |  | with Levites's brethren | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | the charge |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | shall | Levites *= levite* | no manner of service |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Eventuality |

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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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וְשֵׁרֵ֨ת אֶת־אֶחָ֜יו בְּאֹ֤הֶל מוֹעֵד֙ לִשְׁמֹ֣ר מִשְׁמֶ֔רֶת וַעֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֣א יַעֲבֹ֑ד כָּ֛כָה תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לַלְוִיִּ֖ם בְּמִשְׁמְרֹתָֽם׃פ

[Numbers 8:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.26/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, but they shall do no manner of service.**
2. [Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.376/)

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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:375` 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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