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title: Leviticus 6:2 (JPS 1917) — Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the burnt-off… · tree and pragmatics
description: Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the burnt-offering: it is that which goeth up on its firewood upon the altar all night unto the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning thereby. Who acts: you, This, offering, fire. Leviticus 6:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency 
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# Leviticus 6:2 · JPS 1917

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Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the burnt-offering: it is that which goeth up on its firewood upon the altar all night unto the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning thereby.

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**Who acts:** you, This, offering, fire · **What happens:** command, say, be, burn, go up, keep · **To what, where:** law, that, firewood, fire, altar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 6:2 · 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, This, offering, fire), 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:LEV:112
# text = Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the burnt-offering: it is that which goeth up on its firewood upon the altar all night unto the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning thereby.
1	Command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	parataxis	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
46	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	xcomp	_	_
47	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | This | the law |  |  |  | of the burnt offering | tree rules |
| 4 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | offering | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go up** | present |  |  |  | offering's firewood | morning; night | upon the altar | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **keep** | shall · passive |  | the fire of the altar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **burn** | gerund | the fire of the altar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thereby *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **fire** |  |  | the altar |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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צַ֤ו אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹן֙ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֣יו לֵאמֹ֔ר זֹ֥את תּוֹרַ֖ת הָעֹלָ֑ה הִ֣וא הָעֹלָ֡ה עַל֩ מוֹקְדָ֨ה עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֤חַ כָּל־הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ עַד־הַבֹּ֔קֶר וְאֵ֥שׁ הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ תּ֥וּקַד בּֽוֹ׃

[Leviticus 6:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.6.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:112` of Mova's parse database.

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