--- title: Leviticus 7:38 (JPS 1917) — which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he co… · tree and pragmatics description: which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to present their offerings unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai. Who acts: LORD, children. 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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 (LORD, children), 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:174 # text = which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to present their offerings unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai. 1 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 obl _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 mount mount PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 Sinai Sinai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 that that ADV WRB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 present present VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 offerings offering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 unto unto ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Sinai Sinai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses | | mount | day | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent moses=Theme in mount=Eventuality | | 2 | **command** | past | LORD | the children of Israel | | | | that *property* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **present** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | children's offerings | | the wilderness of Sinai | | unto the LORD | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | | 4 | **offer** | | children *= child* | | | | | | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־מֹשֶׁ֖ה בְּהַ֣ר סִינָ֑י בְּי֨וֹם צַוֺּת֜וֹ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לְהַקְרִ֧יב אֶת־קָרְבְּנֵיהֶ֛ם לַיהוָ֖ה בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר סִינָֽי׃פ [Leviticus 7:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.7.38/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:174` 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: [Leviticus 7:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.173/) - next →: [Leviticus 8:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.175/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 7:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.7.38/)