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title: Leviticus 8:21 (JPS 1917) — And when the inwards and the legs were washed with water, Moses made… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the inwards and the legs were washed with water, Moses made the whole ram smoke upon the altar; it was a burnt-offering for a sweet savour; it was an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses. Who acts: Moses, whole ram, altar, LORD. Leviticus 8:21 in JPS 1917 with it
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# Leviticus 8:21 · JPS 1917

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And when the inwards and the legs were washed with water, Moses made the whole ram smoke upon the altar; it was a burnt-offering for a sweet savour; it was an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

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**Who acts:** Moses, whole ram, altar, LORD · **What happens:** wash, make, smoke, burn, be, command · **To what, where:** inwards, burnt offering, offering, Moses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 8:21 · 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 (Moses, whole ram, altar, LORD), 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:195
# text = And when the inwards and the legs were washed with water, Moses made the whole ram smoke upon the altar; it was a burnt-offering for a sweet savour; it was an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	inwards	inwards	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	savour	savour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
38	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:agent	_	_
41	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
49	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **wash** | past · passive |  | the inwards and the legs |  |  |  | with water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 2 | **make** | past | Moses |  |  |  |  | upon the altar | tree rules |
| 3 | **smoke** | infinitive | the whole ram |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | altar | a burnt offering |  |  |  | for a sweet savour | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | altar | a offering |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | participle |  | a offering *not said here* |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 8 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=Theme |

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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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וְאֶת־הַקֶּ֥רֶב וְאֶת־הַכְּרָעַ֖יִם רָחַ֣ץ בַּמָּ֑יִם וַיַּקְטֵר֩ מֹשֶׁ֨ה אֶת־כָּל־הָאַ֜יִל הַמִּזְבֵּ֗חָה עֹלָ֨ה ה֤וּא לְרֵֽיחַ־נִיחֹ֙חַ֙ אִשֶּׁ֥ה הוּא֙ לַיהוָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃

[Leviticus 8:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.8.21/)

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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:195` 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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