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title: Numbers 18:7 (JPS 1917) — And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood in everyt… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood in everything that pertaineth to the altar, and to that within the veil; and ye shall serve; I give you the priesthood as a service of gift; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.' Who acts: thou, ye, I, common man. Numb
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# Numbers 18:7 · JPS 1917

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And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood in everything that pertaineth to the altar, and to that within the veil; and ye shall serve; I give you the priesthood as a service of gift; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.'

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**Who acts:** thou, ye, I, common man · **What happens:** keep, pertain, serve, give, draw, put · **To what, where:** priesthood, everything, you, common man, gift

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This is Numbers 18:7 · 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, ye, I, common man), 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:679
# text = And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood in everything that pertaineth to the altar, and to that within the veil; and ye shall serve; I give you the priesthood as a service of gift; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	priesthood	priesthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pertaineth	pertain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	conj	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	priesthood	priesthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	draweth	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
56	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | shall | thou | your priesthood |  | everything |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent priesthood=Theme in everything=Location |
| 2 | **pertain** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the altar | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to altar=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **serve** | shall | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | present | I | the priesthood | you |  |  | as a service of gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient priesthood=Theme |
| 5 | **draw** | present | the common man |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **put** | shall · passive |  | the common man |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 7 | **service** |  |  | gift |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וְאַתָּ֣ה וּבָנֶ֣יךָ אִ֠תְּךָ תִּשְׁמְר֨וּ אֶת־כְּהֻנַּתְכֶ֜ם לְכָל־דְּבַ֧ר הַמִּזְבֵּ֛חַ וּלְמִבֵּ֥ית לַפָּרֹ֖כֶת וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֑ם עֲבֹדַ֣ת מַתָּנָ֗ה אֶתֵּן֙ אֶת־כְּהֻנַּתְכֶ֔ם וְהַזָּ֥ר הַקָּרֵ֖ב יוּמָֽת׃ס

[Numbers 18:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.18.7/)

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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:679` of Mova's parse database.

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