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title: Numbers 1:49 (JPS 1917) — 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel; Who acts: thou. Numbers 1:49 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 1:49 · JPS 1917

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'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** not number, take, sum · **To what, where:** tribe, sum, fathers

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This is Numbers 1:49 · 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 (thou), 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:48
# text = 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
2	Howbeit	howbeit	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
8	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	number	number	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **number** | shall | thou | the tribe of Levi |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | shall | thou | the sum of fathers |  |  |  | among the children of Israel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme |
| 3 | **sum** |  |  | fathers *= father* |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession 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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אַ֣ךְ אֶת־מַטֵּ֤ה לֵוִי֙ לֹ֣א תִפְקֹ֔ד וְאֶת־רֹאשָׁ֖ם לֹ֣א תִשָּׂ֑א בְּת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Numbers 1:49: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.49/)

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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:48` 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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