--- title: Numbers 15:4 (JPS 1917) — then shall he that bringeth his offering present unto the LORD a mea… · tree and pragmatics description: then shall he that bringeth his offering present unto the LORD a meal-offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil; Who acts: LORD. 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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 (LORD), 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:572 # text = then shall he that bringeth his offering present unto the LORD a meal-offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil; 1 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 bringeth bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 present present VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 9 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 tenth tenth NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumType=Ord 19 compound _ _ 19 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ephah ephah NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 mingled mingle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 fourth fourth ADJ JJ NumType=Ord 30 amod _ _ 30 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hin hin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | present | | LORD's offering | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | | 2 | **present** | infinitive | | a meal offering of a tenth part of a ephah of fine flour | | | | unto the LORD | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | | 3 | **mingle** | participle | | fine flour *not said here* | | | | with the fourth part of a hin of oil | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with part=Co-Patient | | 4 | **offer** | | LORD | | | | | | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **offer** | | | a tenth part of a ephah of fine flour | | | | | nom offering «communication 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} וְהִקְרִ֛יב הַמַּקְרִ֥יב קָרְבָּנ֖וֹ לַֽיהוָ֑ה מִנְחָה֙ סֹ֣לֶת עִשָּׂר֔וֹן בָּל֕וּל בִּרְבִעִ֥ית הַהִ֖ין שָֽׁמֶן׃ [Numbers 15:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NUM:572` 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 15:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.571/) - next →: [Numbers 15:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.573/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 15:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.4/)