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title: Leviticus 10:17 (JPS 1917) — 'Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the place of the sa… · tree and pragmatics
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# Leviticus 10:17 · JPS 1917

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'Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and He hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?

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**Who acts:** ye, offering, Moses · **What happens:** not eat, be, give, bear, make · **To what, where:** sin offering, place, offering, you, iniquity, atonement

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This is Leviticus 10:17 · 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 (ye, offering, 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:251
# text = 'Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and He hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
18	seeing	see	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
40	atonement	atonement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
43	before	before	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
46	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | present · perfect | ye | the sin offering |  | the place of the sanctuary |  | wherefore *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | offering |  |  |  |  | holy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | present · perfect | Moses | offering | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bear** | to-infinitive | Moses *not said here* | the iniquity of the congregation |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | Moses *not said here* | atonement |  |  | before the LORD | for sons *= son* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent atonement=Product for they=Asset |

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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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מַדּ֗וּעַ לֹֽא־אֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם אֶת־הַֽחַטָּאת֙ בִּמְק֣וֹם הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ כִּ֛י קֹ֥דֶשׁ קָֽדָשִׁ֖ים הִ֑וא וְאֹתָ֣הּ ׀ נָתַ֣ן לָכֶ֗ם לָשֵׂאת֙ אֶת־עֲוֺ֣ן הָעֵדָ֔ה לְכַפֵּ֥ר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

[Leviticus 10:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.10.17/)

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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:251` 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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