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title: Leviticus 21:21 (JPS 1917) — no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall c… · tree and pragmatics
description: no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. Who acts: man. Leviticus 21:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Leviticus 21:21 · JPS 1917

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no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** have, come, offer, make, not come · **To what, where:** blemish, offerings, bread, LORD

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This is Leviticus 21:21 · 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 (man), 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:627
# text = no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	parataxis	_	_
39	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **have** | present | no man of the seed of Aaron | a blemish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blemish=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | shall | no man of the seed of Aaron |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | to-infinitive | no man of the seed of Aaron *not said here* | the offerings of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | the offerings of the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  | by fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **have** | present | man | a blemish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blemish=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **come** | shall | man |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **offer** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the bread of man's God |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
| 8 | **offer** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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כָּל־אִ֞ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־בּ֣וֹ מ֗וּם מִזֶּ֙רַע֙ אַהֲרֹ֣ן הַכֹּהֵ֔ן לֹ֣א יִגַּ֔שׁ לְהַקְרִ֖יב אֶת־אִשֵּׁ֣י יְהוָ֑ה מ֣וּם בּ֔וֹ אֵ֚ת לֶ֣חֶם אֱלֹהָ֔יו לֹ֥א יִגַּ֖שׁ לְהַקְרִֽיב׃

[Leviticus 21:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.21/)

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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:627` of Mova's parse database.

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