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title: Numbers 8:8 (JPS 1917) — Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal-offering, fine flou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering. Who acts: Levites, thou, flesh. Numbers 8:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 8:8 · JPS 1917

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Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering.

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**Who acts:** Levites, thou, flesh · **What happens:** let, take, mingle, offer · **To what, where:** young bullock, fine flour

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This is Numbers 8:8 · 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 (Levites, thou, flesh), 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:357
# text = Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
25	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
32	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **let** | infinitive | Levites |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | Levites *not said here* | a young bullock and flesh's meal offering and fine flour |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme |
| 3 | **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 |
| 4 | **take** | shall | thou | another young bullock |  |  |  | for a sin offering | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme for offering=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **offer** |  | flesh |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְלָֽקְחוּ֙ פַּ֣ר בֶּן־בָּקָ֔ר וּמִנְחָת֔וֹ סֹ֖לֶת בְּלוּלָ֣ה בַשָּׁ֑מֶן וּפַר־שֵׁנִ֥י בֶן־בָּקָ֖ר תִּקַּ֥ח לְחַטָּֽאת׃

[Numbers 8:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.8/)

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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:357` 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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