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title: Numbers 28:2 (JPS 1917) — Command the children of Israel, and say unto them: My food which is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Command the children of Israel, and say unto them: My food which is presented unto Me for offerings made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Me, shall ye observe to offer unto Me in its due season. Who acts: you, food. Numbers 28:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 28:2 · JPS 1917

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Command the children of Israel, and say unto them: My food which is presented unto Me for offerings made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Me, shall ye observe to offer unto Me in its due season.

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**Who acts:** you, food · **What happens:** command, say, present, make, observe, offer · **To what, where:** children, food, offerings, sweet savour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Numbers 28:2 · 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 (you, food), 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:NUM:1008
# text = Command the children of Israel, and say unto them: My food which is presented unto Me for offerings made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Me, shall ye observe to offer unto Me in its due season.
1	Command	command	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:agent	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	savour	savour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
29	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
34	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | imperative | you *not said here* | the children of Israel |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto children *= child* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **present** | present · passive |  | My food |  |  |  | unto Me; for offerings of a sweet savour unto Me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for offering=Recipient |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | offerings of a sweet savour unto Me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **observe** | shall | My food |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **offer** | to-infinitive | My food *not said here* |  |  |  | season | unto Me | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **offer** |  |  | a sweet savour unto Me |  |  |  |  | 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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צַ֚ו אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֲלֵהֶ֑ם אֶת־קָרְבָּנִ֨י לַחְמִ֜י לְאִשַּׁ֗י רֵ֚יחַ נִֽיחֹחִ֔י תִּשְׁמְר֕וּ לְהַקְרִ֥יב לִ֖י בְּמוֹעֲדֽוֹ׃

[Numbers 28:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.28.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:1008` 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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