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title: Numbers 10:21 (JPS 1917) — And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up against their coming. Who acts: Kohathites. Numbers 10:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 10:21 · JPS 1917

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And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up against their coming.

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**Who acts:** Kohathites · **What happens:** set forward, set up · **To what, where:** tabernacle, coming

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This is Numbers 10:21 · 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 (Kohathites), 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:420
# text = And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up against their coming.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Kohathites	kohathite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bearers	bearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	coming	come	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **set forward** | past | the Kohathites |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **set up** | might · passive |  | the tabernacle |  | Kohathites's coming |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against come=Destination |

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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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וְנָסְעוּ֙ הַקְּהָתִ֔ים נֹשְׂאֵ֖י הַמִּקְדָּ֑שׁ וְהֵקִ֥ימוּ אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן עַד־בֹּאָֽם׃ס

[Numbers 10:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.21/)

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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:420` 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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