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title: Numbers 3:7 (JPS 1917) — And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congrega… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. Who acts: children, Levi. Numbers 3:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 3:7 · JPS 1917

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And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

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**Who acts:** children, Levi · **What happens:** keep, do, charge, service · **To what, where:** charge, service, whole congregation, tabernacle

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This is Numbers 3:7 · 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 (children, Levi), 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:94
# text = And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | shall | children *= child* | Levi's charge and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | the service of the tabernacle |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality |
| 3 | **charge** |  | Levi |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **charge** |  |  | the whole congregation |  |  | before the tent of meeting |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient before=obl |
| 5 | **service** |  |  | the tabernacle |  |  |  |  | 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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וְשָׁמְר֣וּ אֶת־מִשְׁמַרְתּ֗וֹ וְאֶת־מִשְׁמֶ֙רֶת֙ כָּל־הָ֣עֵדָ֔ה לִפְנֵ֖י אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד לַעֲבֹ֖ד אֶת־עֲבֹדַ֥ת הַמִּשְׁכָּֽן׃

[Numbers 3:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.7/)

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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:94` 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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