---
title: Leviticus 5:8 (JPS 1917) — And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and pinch off its head close by its neck, but shall not divide it asunder. Who acts: man, priest. Leviticus 5:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.92/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/5/) / [5:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.5.8/) / JPS 1

# Leviticus 5:8 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and pinch off its head close by its neck, but shall not divide it asunder.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** man, priest · **What happens:** bring, offer, be, pinch off, not divide · **To what, where:** doves, priest, head, offering

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Leviticus 5:8 · 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, 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:92
# text = And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and pinch off its head close by its neck, but shall not divide it asunder.
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	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
21	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	pinch	pinch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	divide	divide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	asunder	asunder	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | shall | man | doves *= dove* |  |  |  | unto the priest | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | shall | the priest | the priest |  |  |  | first *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for the sin offering | tree rules |
| 4 | **pinch off** | infinitive | the priest *not said here* | offering's head |  |  |  | by offering's neck; close *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer by neck=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **divide** | shall | the priest *not said here* | offering |  |  |  | asunder *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וְהֵבִ֤יא אֹתָם֙ אֶל־הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהִקְרִ֛יב אֶת־אֲשֶׁ֥ר לַחַטָּ֖את רִאשׁוֹנָ֑ה וּמָלַ֧ק אֶת־רֹאשׁ֛וֹ מִמּ֥וּל עָרְפּ֖וֹ וְלֹ֥א יַבְדִּֽיל׃

[Leviticus 5:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.5.8/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:92` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Leviticus 5:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.91/)
- next →: [Leviticus 5:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.93/)
- ↑ back to [Leviticus 5:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.5.8/)