--- title: Numbers 18:1 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Aaron: 'Thou and thy sons and thy fathers' ho… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD said unto Aaron: 'Thou and thy sons and thy fathers' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. Who acts: LORD, Thou. 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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 (LORD, 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:673 # text = And the LORD said unto Aaron: 'Thou and thy sons and thy fathers' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 9 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 ' 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sanctuary sanctuary NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nmod _ _ 35 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 priesthood priesthood NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD | | | | | unto Aaron | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **bear** | shall | Thou | the iniquity of the sanctuary | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Patient | | 3 | **bear** | shall | thou | the iniquity of your priesthood | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Patient | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֔ן אַתָּ֗ה וּבָנֶ֤יךָ וּבֵית־אָבִ֙יךָ֙ אִתָּ֔ךְ תִּשְׂא֖וּ אֶת־עֲוֺ֣ן הַמִּקְדָּ֑שׁ וְאַתָּה֙ וּבָנֶ֣יךָ אִתָּ֔ךְ תִּשְׂא֖וּ אֶת־עֲוֺ֥ן כְּהֻנַּתְכֶֽם׃ [Numbers 18:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.18.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:673` 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 17:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.672/) - next →: [Numbers 18:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.674/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 18:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.18.1/)