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title: Numbers 8:26 (JPS 1917) — Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.' · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.' Who acts: thou, 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 2 of 2

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Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.'

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**Who acts:** thou, Levites · **What happens:** do, touch, charge · **To what, where:** charges

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This is Numbers 8:26 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (thou, 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:376
# text = Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.'
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	charges	charge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | unto the Levites; thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund | the Levites *not said here* | Levites's charges |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme charge=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **charge** |  | Levites *= levite* |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=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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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.375/)
2. **Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.'**

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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:376` 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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