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title: Leviticus 16:12 (JPS 1917) — And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil. Who acts: Aaron. Leviticus 16:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 16:12 · JPS 1917

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And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil.

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**Who acts:** Aaron · **What happens:** take, beat, bring · **To what, where:** censer, altar, sweet incense, atonement

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This is Leviticus 16:12 · 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:471
# text = And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	censer	censer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	within	within	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | Aaron | a censer and Aaron's hands |  | the altar | before the LORD |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent censer=Theme before lord=Destination |
| 2 | **beat** | participle |  | sweet incense *not said here* |  |  |  | small *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | Aaron *not said here* | atonement |  |  |  | within the veil | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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וְלָקַ֣ח מְלֹֽא־הַ֠מַּחְתָּה גַּֽחֲלֵי־אֵ֞שׁ מֵעַ֤ל הַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ מִלִּפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וּמְלֹ֣א חָפְנָ֔יו קְטֹ֥רֶת סַמִּ֖ים דַּקָּ֑ה וְהֵבִ֖יא מִבֵּ֥ית לַפָּרֹֽכֶת׃

[Leviticus 16:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.16.12/)

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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:471` 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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