--- title: Numbers 5:26 (JPS 1917) — And the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the mem… · tree and pragmatics description: And the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. Who acts: priest, offering, woman. Numbers 5:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.215/) [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/) / [Numbers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/) / [chapter 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/5/) / [5:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.26/) / JPS 1 # Numbers 5:26 · JPS 1917 And the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. **Who acts:** priest, offering, woman · **What happens:** take, make, smoke, drink · **To what, where:** handful, offering, woman, water This is Numbers 5:26 · 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 (priest, offering, woman), 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:215 # text = And the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 memorial memorial NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 19 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 smoke smoke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 upon upon ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 afterward afterward ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | shall | the priest | a handful of the meal offering | | | | as the memorial part | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent handful=Theme as part=Attribute | | 2 | **make** | infinitive | the priest *not said here* | offering | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **smoke** | infinitive | offering *not said here* | | | | | upon the altar | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | shall | the priest *not said here* | the woman | | | | afterward *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **drink** | infinitive | the woman *not said here* | the water | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | 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} וְקָמַ֨ץ הַכֹּהֵ֤ן מִן־הַמִּנְחָה֙ אֶת־אַזְכָּ֣רָתָ֔הּ וְהִקְטִ֖יר הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה וְאַחַ֛ר יַשְׁקֶ֥ה אֶת־הָאִשָּׁ֖ה אֶת־הַמָּֽיִם׃ [Numbers 5:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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