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title: Numbers 17:18 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there shall be one rod for the head of their fathers' houses. Who acts: thou, one rod, Aaron. Numbers 17:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 17:18 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there shall be one rod for the head of their fathers' houses.

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**Who acts:** thou, one rod, Aaron · **What happens:** write, be, name · **To what, where:** name

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This is Numbers 17:18 · 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, one rod, Aaron), 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:662
# text = And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there shall be one rod for the head of their fathers' houses.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	'	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | shall | thou | Aaron's name |  |  |  | upon the rod of Levi | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | shall | one rod for the head of rods's fathers's houses |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **name** |  | Aaron |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְאֵת֙ שֵׁ֣ם אַהֲרֹ֔ן תִּכְתֹּ֖ב עַל־מַטֵּ֣ה לֵוִ֑י כִּ֚י מַטֶּ֣ה אֶחָ֔ד לְרֹ֖אשׁ בֵּ֥ית אֲבוֹתָֽם׃

[Numbers 17:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.18/)

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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:662` 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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