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title: Numbers 16:10 (JPS 1917) — and that He hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of… · tree and pragmatics
description: and that He hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and will ye seek the priesthood also? Who acts: God, ye. Numbers 16:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 16:10 · JPS 1917

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and that He hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and will ye seek the priesthood also?

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**Who acts:** God, ye · **What happens:** bring, seek · **To what, where:** thee, priesthood

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This is Numbers 16:10 · 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 (God, 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:619
# text = and that He hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and will ye seek the priesthood also?
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obj	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	priesthood	priesthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present · perfect | God | thee |  |  |  | near *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | future | ye | the priesthood |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priesthood=Theme |

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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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וַיַּקְרֵב֙ אֹֽתְךָ֔ וְאֶת־כָּל־אַחֶ֥יךָ בְנֵי־לֵוִ֖י אִתָּ֑ךְ וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּ֖ם גַּם־כְּהֻנָּֽה׃

[Numbers 16:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.10/)

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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:619` 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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