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title: Leviticus 4:3 (JPS 1917) — if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the people,… · tree and pragmatics
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# Leviticus 4:3 · JPS 1917

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if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin-offering.

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**Who acts:** anointed priest, you, priest · **What happens:** anoint, sin, bring, let, offer · **To what, where:** guilt, priest, young bullock, sin

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This is Leviticus 4:3 · 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 (anointed priest, you, priest), 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:52
# text = if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin-offering.
1	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	anointed	anoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sin	sin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
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	sinned	sin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
32	without	without	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
41	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sin** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | the anointed priest |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the anointed priest *not said here* | guilt |  |  |  | on the people | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guilt=Theme on people=Destination |
| 4 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | priest |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **offer** | infinitive | priest *not said here* | a young bullock |  |  |  | for priest's sin *goal*; without blemish; unto the LORD; for a sin offering | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme for sin=Goal |
| 6 | **sin** | present · perfect | priest | priest's sin |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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אִ֣ם הַכֹּהֵ֧ן הַמָּשִׁ֛יחַ יֶחֱטָ֖א לְאַשְׁמַ֣ת הָעָ֑ם וְהִקְרִ֡יב עַ֣ל חַטָּאתוֹ֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר חָטָ֜א פַּ֣ר בֶּן־בָּקָ֥ר תָּמִ֛ים לַיהוָ֖ה לְחַטָּֽאת׃

[Leviticus 4:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.4.3/)

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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:52` 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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