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# Leviticus 3:1 · JPS 1917

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And if his offering be a sacrifice of peace-offerings: if he offer of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.

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**Who acts:** offering, he, his · **What happens:** be, offer · **To what, where:** sacrifice, offering

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This is Leviticus 3:1 · 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 (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:33
# text = And if his offering be a sacrifice of peace-offerings: if he offer of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	without	without	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	LORD	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | his offering | a sacrifice |  |  |  | of peace offerings | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | he |  |  |  |  | of the herd | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **offer** | shall | he | offering |  |  | before the LORD | without blemish | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **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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וְאִם־זֶ֥בַח שְׁלָמִ֖ים קָרְבָּנ֑וֹ אִ֤ם מִן־הַבָּקָר֙ ה֣וּא מַקְרִ֔יב אִם־זָכָר֙ אִם־נְקֵבָ֔ה תָּמִ֥ים יַקְרִיבֶ֖נּוּ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

[Leviticus 3:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.3.1/)

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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:33` 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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