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title: Leviticus 6:16 (JPS 1917) — And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly made to smoke;… · tree and pragmatics
description: And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly made to smoke; it shall not be eaten. Who acts: meal offering. Leviticus 6:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 6:16 · JPS 1917

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And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly made to smoke; it shall not be eaten.

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**Who acts:** meal offering · **What happens:** make, smoke, not eat, offer · **To what, where:** meal offering, offering, priest

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This is Leviticus 6:16 · 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 (meal offering), 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:127
# text = And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly made to smoke; it shall not be eaten.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | shall · passive |  | every meal offering of the priest |  |  |  | wholly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **smoke** | to-infinitive | every meal offering of the priest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **eat** | shall · passive |  | offering |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **offer** |  |  | the priest |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication 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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וְכָל־מִנְחַ֥ת כֹּהֵ֛ן כָּלִ֥יל תִּהְיֶ֖ה לֹ֥א תֵאָכֵֽל׃פ

[Leviticus 6:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.6.16/)

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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:127` 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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