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title: Numbers 3:10 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, that they may keep their… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, that they may keep their priesthood; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.' Who acts: thou, Aaron, common man. Numbers 3:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 3:10 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, that they may keep their priesthood; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.'

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**Who acts:** thou, Aaron, common man · **What happens:** appoint, keep, draw, put · **To what, where:** Aaron, priesthood, common man

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This is Numbers 3:10 · 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, Aaron, common man), 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:97
# text = And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, that they may keep their priesthood; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	appoint	appoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	_	13	aux	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	priesthood	priesthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	draweth	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | shall | thou | Aaron and Israel's sons |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aaron=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | may | Aaron | Aaron's priesthood |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priesthood=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | present | the common man |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **put** | shall · passive |  | the common man |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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וְאֶת־אַהֲרֹ֤ן וְאֶת־בָּנָיו֙ תִּפְקֹ֔ד וְשָׁמְר֖וּ אֶת־כְּהֻנָּתָ֑ם וְהַזָּ֥ר הַקָּרֵ֖ב יוּמָֽת׃פ

[Numbers 3:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.10/)

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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:97` of Mova's parse database.

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