--- title: Numbers 8:11 (JPS 1917) — And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave-offerin… · tree and pragmatics description: And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave-offering from the children of Israel, that they may be to do the service of the LORD. Who acts: Aaron, Levites. 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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 (Aaron, Levites), 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:360 # text = And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave-offering from the children of Israel, that they may be to do the service of the LORD. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Levites levite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 before before ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **offer** | shall | Aaron | the Levites | | | before the LORD | for a wave offering *goal*; from the children of Israel | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent levite=Theme for offering=Goal | | 2 | **do** | may | Levites *= levite* | the service of the LORD | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | | 3 | **service** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom service «act transitive»: of=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} וְהֵנִיף֩ אַהֲרֹ֨ן אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֤ם תְּנוּפָה֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה מֵאֵ֖ת בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהָי֕וּ לַעֲבֹ֖ד אֶת־עֲבֹדַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃ [Numbers 8:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:360` 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. - ← previous: [Numbers 8:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.359/) - next →: [Numbers 8:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.361/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 8:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.8.11/)