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title: Numbers 18:16 (JPS 1917) — And their redemption-money — from a month old shalt thou redeem them… · tree and pragmatics
description: And their redemption-money — from a month old shalt thou redeem them — shall be, according to thy valuation, five shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary — the same is twenty gerahs. Who acts: thou, redemption money, same, thy. Numbers 18:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the 
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# Numbers 18:16 · JPS 1917

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And their redemption-money — from a month old shalt thou redeem them — shall be, according to thy valuation, five shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary — the same is twenty gerahs.

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**Who acts:** thou, redemption money, same, thy · **What happens:** redeem, accord, be, valuate · **To what, where:** things, old, five shekels, twenty gerahs

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This is Numbers 18:16 · 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, redemption money, same, thy), 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:688
# text = And their redemption-money — from a month old shalt thou redeem them — shall be, according to thy valuation, five shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary — the same is twenty gerahs.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	redemption	redemption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
11	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	redeem	redeem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	valuation	valuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	shekels	shekel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shekel	shekel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	gerahs	gerah	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	parataxis	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **redeem** | shall | thou | things *= thing* |  | old |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from old=Source |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | things's redemption money | five shekels |  |  | after the shekel of the sanctuary | accord thy valuation; of silver | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the same | twenty gerahs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **valuate** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom valuation «cognition 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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וּפְדוּיָו֙ מִבֶּן־חֹ֣דֶשׁ תִּפְדֶּ֔ה בְּעֶ֨רְכְּךָ֔ כֶּ֛סֶף חֲמֵ֥שֶׁת שְׁקָלִ֖ים בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים גֵּרָ֖ה הֽוּא׃

[Numbers 18:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.18.16/)

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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:688` 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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