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# Leviticus 2:1 · JPS 1917

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And when any one bringeth a meal-offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon.

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**Who acts:** one, offering, he, his · **What happens:** bring, be, pour, put, offer · **To what, where:** meal offering, oil, frankincense

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This is Leviticus 2:1 · 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 (one, offering, he, his), 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:17
# text = And when any one bringeth a meal-offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bringeth	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	frankincense	frankincense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | any one | a meal offering |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | shall | his offering |  |  |  |  | of fine flour | tree rules |
| 3 | **pour** | shall | he | oil |  |  |  | upon offering | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | he *not said here* | frankincense |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent frankincense=Goal |
| 5 | **offer** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְנֶ֗פֶשׁ כִּֽי־תַקְרִ֞יב קָרְבַּ֤ן מִנְחָה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה סֹ֖לֶת יִהְיֶ֣ה קָרְבָּנ֑וֹ וְיָצַ֤ק עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ שֶׁ֔מֶן וְנָתַ֥ן עָלֶ֖יהָ לְבֹנָֽה׃

[Leviticus 2:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.1/)

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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:17` 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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