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title: Leviticus 16:8 (JPS 1917) — And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for the LORD,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for Azazel. Who acts: Aaron. Leviticus 16:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 16:8 · JPS 1917

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And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for Azazel.

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**Who acts:** Aaron · **What happens:** cast · **To what, where:** lots

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This is Leviticus 16:8 · 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), 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:467
# text = And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for Azazel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Azazel	Azazel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | shall | Aaron | lots |  |  |  | upon the two goats | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lot=Theme upon goat=Destination |

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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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וְנָתַ֧ן אַהֲרֹ֛ן עַל־שְׁנֵ֥י הַשְּׂעִירִ֖ם גּוֹרָל֑וֹת גּוֹרָ֤ל אֶחָד֙ לַיהוָ֔ה וְגוֹרָ֥ל אֶחָ֖ד לַעֲזָאזֵֽל׃

[Leviticus 16:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.16.8/)

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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:467` 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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