--- title: Exodus 29:18 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt make the whole ram smoke upon the altar; it is a burn… · tree and pragmatics description: And thou shalt make the whole ram smoke upon the altar; it is a burnt-offering unto the LORD; it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. Who acts: thou, whole ram, altar. 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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, whole ram, altar), 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:EXO:859 # text = And thou shalt make the whole ram smoke upon the altar; it is a burnt-offering unto the LORD; it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 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 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 smoke smoke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 burnt burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 19 unto unto ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 savour savour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 31 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:agent _ _ 34 unto unto ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=request, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | shall | thou | the whole ram | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **smoke** | infinitive | the whole ram *not said here* | | | | | upon the altar | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **burn** | participle | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | altar | a burnt offering | | | | unto the LORD | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | altar | a sweet savour | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | participle | | a offering *not said here* | | | | unto the LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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} וְהִקְטַרְתָּ֤ אֶת־כָּל־הָאַ֙יִל֙ הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חָה עֹלָ֥ה ה֖וּא לַֽיהוָ֑ה רֵ֣יחַ נִיח֔וֹחַ אִשֶּׁ֥ה לַיהוָ֖ה הֽוּא׃ [Exodus 29:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:859` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 29:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.858/) - next →: [Exodus 29:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.860/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 29:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.18/)