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title: Numbers 2:17 (JPS 1917) — Then the tent of meeting, with the camp of the Levites, shall set fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the tent of meeting, with the camp of the Levites, shall set forward in the midst of the camps; as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards. Who acts: tent, hosts. Numbers 2:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 2:17 · JPS 1917

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Then the tent of meeting, with the camp of the Levites, shall set forward in the midst of the camps; as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards.

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**Who acts:** tent, hosts · **What happens:** set forward, encamp · **To what, where:** midst

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This is Numbers 2:17 · 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 (tent, hosts), 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:70
# text = Then the tent of meeting, with the camp of the Levites, shall set forward in the midst of the camps; as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Levites	Levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	camps	camp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	encamp	encamp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
32	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **set forward** | shall | the tent of meeting with the camp of the Levites |  |  | the midst of the camps | then | forward *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in midst=Destination |
| 2 | **encamp** | present | hosts *= host* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set forward** | shall | hosts *= host* |  |  |  |  | by hosts's standards; forward *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by standard=Destination |

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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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וְנָסַ֧ע אֹֽהֶל־מוֹעֵ֛ד מַחֲנֵ֥ה הַלְוִיִּ֖ם בְּת֣וֹךְ הַֽמַּחֲנֹ֑ת כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר יַחֲנוּ֙ כֵּ֣ן יִסָּ֔עוּ אִ֥ישׁ עַל־יָד֖וֹ לְדִגְלֵיהֶֽם׃ס

[Numbers 2:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.2.17/)

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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:70` 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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