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title: Leviticus 4:23 (JPS 1917) — if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, be known to him, he shall bring… · tree and pragmatics
description: if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, be known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a male without blemish. Who acts: sin, priest. Leviticus 4:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 4:23 · JPS 1917

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if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, be known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a male without blemish.

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**Who acts:** sin, priest · **What happens:** sin, know, bring, offer · **To what, where:** sin, priest, goat

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This is Leviticus 4:23 · 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 (sin, 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:72
# text = if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, be known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a male without blemish.
1	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	sinned	sin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sin** | present · perfect | sin |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | priest's sin | priest |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bring** | shall | sin |  | a goat |  |  | for priest's offering | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goat=Destination |
| 4 | **offer** |  | priest |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אֽוֹ־הוֹדַ֤ע אֵלָיו֙ חַטָּאת֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָטָ֖א בָּ֑הּ וְהֵבִ֧יא אֶת־קָרְבָּנ֛וֹ שְׂעִ֥יר עִזִּ֖ים זָכָ֥ר תָּמִֽים׃

[Leviticus 4:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.4.23/)

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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:72` 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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