--- title: Numbers 18:6 (JPS 1917) — And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the… · tree and pragmatics description: And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; for you they are given as a gift unto the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting. Who acts: I. 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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 (I), 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:678 # text = And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; for you they are given as a gift unto the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 behold behold INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Levites Levite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 among among ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 unto unto ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 tent tent NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present · perfect | I | your brethren | | | | from the children of Israel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent brethren=Theme from child=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **give** | present · passive | | children *= child* | | | | for you; as a gift; unto the LORD | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for you=Asset | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | | the service of the tent of meeting | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | | 4 | **service** | | | the tent of meeting | | | | | nom service «act transitive»: of=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} וַאֲנִ֗י הִנֵּ֤ה לָקַ֙חְתִּי֙ אֶת־אֲחֵיכֶ֣ם הַלְוִיִּ֔ם מִתּ֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לָכֶ֞ם מַתָּנָ֤ה נְתֻנִים֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה לַעֲבֹ֕ד אֶת־עֲבֹדַ֖ת אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד׃ [Numbers 18:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.18.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:678` 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 18:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.677/) - next →: [Numbers 18:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.679/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 18:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.18.6/)