--- title: Numbers 9:23 (JPS 1917) — At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment… · tree and pragmatics description: At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed; they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. Who acts: children, hand. 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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 (children, hand), 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:399 # text = At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed; they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 encamped encamp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 journeyed journey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **encamp** | past | children *= child* | | | the commandment of the LORD | | | tree rules | | 2 | **journey** | past | children *= child* | | | the commandment of the LORD | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at commandment=Trajectory | | 3 | **keep** | past | children *= child* | the charge of the LORD | | the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent charge=Theme at commandment=Location | | 4 | **command** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **command** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **charge** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **command** | | the hand of Moses | the LORD | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient by=agent | 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} עַל־פִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ יַחֲנ֔וּ וְעַל־פִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה יִסָּ֑עוּ אֶת־מִשְׁמֶ֤רֶת יְהוָה֙ שָׁמָ֔רוּ עַל־פִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה בְּיַד־מֹשֶֽׁה׃פ [Numbers 9:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.9.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:399` 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 9:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.398/) - next →: [Numbers 10:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.400/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 9:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.9.23/)