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title: Numbers 15:3 (JPS 1917) — and will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, o… · tree and pragmatics
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# Numbers 15:3 · JPS 1917

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and will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or as a freewill-offering, or in your appointed seasons, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock;

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**Who acts:** fire · **What happens:** make, utter, appoint, offer, fulfil · **To what, where:** offering, fulfilment, vow, sweet savour

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This is Numbers 15:3 · 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 (fire), 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:571
# text = and will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or as a freewill-offering, or in your appointed seasons, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock;
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	burnt	burn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fulfilment	fulfilment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	freewill	freewill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
34	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
40	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	savour	savour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
59	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **make** | future |  | a offering and a burnt offering or a sacrifice |  | fulfilment of a vow or a freewill offering or your appointed seasons |  | by fire; unto the LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset offering=Product |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | participle |  | a vow *not said here* |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a sweet savour and the herd or the flock |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset savour=Product |
| 5 | **offer** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: by=agent |
| 6 | **fulfil** |  |  | a vow |  |  |  |  | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=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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וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֨ם אִשֶּׁ֤ה לַֽיהוָה֙ עֹלָ֣ה אוֹ־זֶ֔בַח לְפַלֵּא־נֶ֙דֶר֙ א֣וֹ בִנְדָבָ֔ה א֖וֹ בְּמֹעֲדֵיכֶ֑ם לַעֲשׂ֞וֹת רֵ֤יחַ נִיחֹ֙חַ֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה מִן־הַבָּקָ֖ר א֥וֹ מִן־הַצֹּֽאן׃

[Numbers 15:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.3/)

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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:571` of Mova's parse database.

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