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title: Numbers 1:50 (JPS 1917) — but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it; they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. Who acts: thou, Levit
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# Numbers 1:50 · JPS 1917

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but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it; they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

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**Who acts:** thou, Levites · **What happens:** appoint, belong, bear, minister, encamp · **To what, where:** Levites, tabernacle, furniture

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This is Numbers 1:50 · 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, 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:49
# text = but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it; they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	appoint	appoint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	testimony	testimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
18	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	8	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	belongeth	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
38	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	minister	minister	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
44	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	encamp	encamp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
50	round	round	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	about	about	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | infinitive | thou | the Levites |  | the tabernacle of the testimony and all furniture |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent levite=Theme |
| 2 | **belong** | present |  |  | furniture |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | shall | Levites *= levite* | the tabernacle and all furniture |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabernacle=Patient |
| 4 | **minister** | shall | Levites *= levite* |  |  |  |  | unto furniture | tree rules |
| 5 | **encamp** | shall | Levites *= levite* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the tabernacle; round *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְאַתָּ֡ה הַפְקֵ֣ד אֶת־הַלְוִיִּם֩ עַל־מִשְׁכַּ֨ן הָעֵדֻ֜ת וְעַ֣ל כָּל־כֵּלָיו֮ וְעַ֣ל כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ֒ הֵ֜מָּה יִשְׂא֤וּ אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּן֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלָ֔יו וְהֵ֖ם יְשָׁרְתֻ֑הוּ וְסָבִ֥יב לַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן יַחֲנֽוּ׃

[Numbers 1:50: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.50/)

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