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title: Leviticus 9:21 (JPS 1917) — And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded. Who acts: Aaron, Moses. Leviticus 9:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 9:21 · JPS 1917

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And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.

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**Who acts:** Aaron, Moses · **What happens:** wave, command · **To what, where:** breasts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 9:21 · 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 (Aaron, Moses), 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:231
# text = And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **wave** | past | Aaron | the breasts and the right thigh |  |  | before the LORD | for a wave offering | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Patient |
| 2 | **command** | past | Moses |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=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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וְאֵ֣ת הֶחָז֗וֹת וְאֵת֙ שׁ֣וֹק הַיָּמִ֔ין הֵנִ֧יף אַהֲרֹ֛ן תְּנוּפָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר צִוָּ֥ה מֹשֶֽׁה׃

[Leviticus 9:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.21/)

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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:231` 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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