--- title: Leviticus 16:21 (JPS 1917) — And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, a… · tree and pragmatics description: And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of an appointed man into the w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.480/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Leviticus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/16/) / [16:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.16.21/) / JPS 1 # Leviticus 16:21 · JPS 1917 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of an appointed man into the wilderness. **Who acts:** Aaron, man, goats · **What happens:** lay, confess, put, send away, transgress · **To what, where:** hands, head, iniquities, goats, man, wilderness This is Leviticus 16:21 · 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, man, goats), 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:480 # text = And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of an appointed man into the wilderness. 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 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 both both DET PDT _ 7 det:predet _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 confess confess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 iniquities iniquity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 32 det:predet _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 transgressions transgression NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 sins sin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 appos _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 upon upon ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 52 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 53 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 conj _ _ 54 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 obj _ _ 55 away away ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 56 by by ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 60 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 61 appointed appointed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod _ _ 63 into into ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 66 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | shall | Aaron | man's hands | | the head of the live goat | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon head=Destination | | 2 | **confess** | infinitive | Aaron *not said here* | all iniquities of the children of Israel and goats's transgressions | | | | over man | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Topic | | 3 | **put** | shall | man | goats *= goat* | | the head of the goat | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon head=Destination | | 4 | **send away** | shall | man *not said here* | man | | the wilderness | | by the hand of a appointed man; away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **transgress** | | goats *= goat* | | | | | | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְסָמַ֨ךְ אַהֲרֹ֜ן אֶת־שְׁתֵּ֣י יָדָ֗יו עַ֨ל רֹ֣אשׁ הַשָּׂעִיר֮ הַחַי֒ וְהִתְוַדָּ֣ה עָלָ֗יו אֶת־כָּל־עֲוֺנֹת֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאֶת־כָּל־פִּשְׁעֵיהֶ֖ם לְכָל־חַטֹּאתָ֑ם וְנָתַ֤ן אֹתָם֙ עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ הַשָּׂעִ֔יר וְשִׁלַּ֛ח בְּיַד־אִ֥ישׁ עִתִּ֖י הַמִּדְבָּֽרָה׃ [Leviticus 16:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.16.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:480` 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. - ← previous: [Leviticus 16:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.479/) - next →: [Leviticus 16:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.481/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 16:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.16.21/)