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title: Numbers 28:9 (JPS 1917) — And on the sabbath day two he-lambs of the first year without blemis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the sabbath day two he-lambs of the first year without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and the drink-offering thereof. Numbers 28:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 28:9 · JPS 1917

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And on the sabbath day two he-lambs of the first year without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and the drink-offering thereof.

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**What happens:** mingle · **To what, where:** fine flour

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This is Numbers 28:9 · 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: 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:1015
# text = And on the sabbath day two he-lambs of the first year without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and the drink-offering thereof.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	he	he	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ephah	ephah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
41	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
42	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **mingle** | participle |  | fine flour *not said here* |  |  |  | with oil | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with oil=Co-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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וּבְיוֹם֙ הַשַּׁבָּ֔ת שְׁנֵֽי־כְבָשִׂ֥ים בְּנֵֽי־שָׁנָ֖ה תְּמִימִ֑ם וּשְׁנֵ֣י עֶשְׂרֹנִ֗ים סֹ֧לֶת מִנְחָ֛ה בְּלוּלָ֥ה בַשֶּׁ֖מֶן וְנִסְכּֽוֹ׃

[Numbers 28:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.28.9/)

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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:1015` 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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