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title: Numbers 28:6 (JPS 1917) — It is a continual burnt-offering, which was offered in mount Sinai,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a continual burnt-offering, which was offered in mount Sinai, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. Who acts: part. Numbers 28:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 28:6 · JPS 1917

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It is a continual burnt-offering, which was offered in mount Sinai, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

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**Who acts:** part · **What happens:** burn, be, offer, make · **To what, where:** continual burnt offering, mount, offering

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This is Numbers 28:6 · 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 (part), 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:1012
# text = It is a continual burnt-offering, which was offered in mount Sinai, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	Sinai	Sinai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	savour	savour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:agent	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | part | a continual burnt offering |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **offer** | past · passive |  | a continual burnt offering |  | mount |  | for a sweet savour *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme for savour=Goal |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | a offering *not said here* |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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עֹלַ֖ת תָּמִ֑יד הָעֲשֻׂיָה֙ בְּהַ֣ר סִינַ֔י לְרֵ֣יחַ נִיחֹ֔חַ אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַֽיהוָֽה׃

[Numbers 28:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.28.6/)

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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:1012` 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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