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title: Numbers 26:4 (JPS 1917) — 'Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward, as th… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.' Who acts: you, LORD, children. Numbers 26:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 26:4 · JPS 1917

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'Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.'

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**Who acts:** you, LORD, children · **What happens:** take, command, come, sum · **To what, where:** sum, old, Moses, land, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 26:4 · 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, LORD, children), 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:916
# text = 'Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.'
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	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
20	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
29	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 the people |  | old |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent sum=Theme from old=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses and the children of Israel |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the children of Israel |  |  | the land of Egypt |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out land=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sum** |  |  | the people |  |  |  |  | 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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מִבֶּ֛ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וָמָ֑עְלָה כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ צִוָּ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה אֶת־מֹשֶׁה֙ וּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַיֹּצְאִ֖ים מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

[Numbers 26:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.4/)

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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:916` 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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