--- title: Numbers 16:7 (JPS 1917) — and put fire therein, and put incense upon them before the LORD to-m… · tree and pragmatics description: and put fire therein, and put incense upon them before the LORD to-morrow; and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy; ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.' Who acts: you, LORD, man, ye. 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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 (you, LORD, man, ye), 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:616 # text = and put fire therein, and put incense upon them before the LORD to-morrow; and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy; ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.' 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 therein therein ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 8 incense incense NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 11 before before ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 16 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 case _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 25 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 doth do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 36 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nsubj _ _ 37 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 38 too too ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 much much PRON NN PronType=Ind 37 obj _ _ 40 upon upon ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 44 det _ _ 44 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 vocative _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Levi Levi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 48 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | fire | | | | therein *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | incense | | | before the LORD | upon censors *= censor*; to morrow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent incense=Theme upon they=Destination | | 3 | **choose** | present · do-support | the LORD | the man | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | | 4 | **is** | shall | the man | | | | | holy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | present | ye | much | | | | upon you; ye sons of Levi *vocative* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | 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} וּתְנ֣וּ בָהֵ֣ן ׀ אֵ֡שׁ וְשִׂימוּ֩ עֲלֵיהֶ֨ן קְטֹ֜רֶת לִפְנֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ מָחָ֔ר וְהָיָ֗ה הָאִ֛ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה ה֣וּא הַקָּד֑וֹשׁ רַב־לָכֶ֖ם בְּנֵ֥י לֵוִֽי׃ [Numbers 16:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:616` 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 16:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.615/) - next →: [Numbers 16:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.617/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 16:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.7/)