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title: Numbers 26:2 (JPS 1917) — 'Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, fro… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.' Who acts: you. Numbers 26:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 26:2 · JPS 1917

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'Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, be, go, sum · **To what, where:** sum, Israel, congregation

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This is Numbers 26:2 · 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 (you), 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:914
# text = 'Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	'	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	appos	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- 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 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sum of all congregation of the children of Israel |  |  |  | by children's fathers's houses; old from twenty years *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Israel |  | to war; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sum** |  |  | all congregation of the children of Israel |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession 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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שְׂא֞וּ אֶת־רֹ֣אשׁ ׀ כָּל־עֲדַ֣ת בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֛ה וָמַ֖עְלָה לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם כָּל־יֹצֵ֥א צָבָ֖א בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Numbers 26:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.2/)

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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:914` 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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