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title: Numbers 15:8 (JPS 1917) — And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sac… · tree and pragmatics
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# Numbers 15:8 · JPS 1917

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And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or for peace-offerings unto the LORD;

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** prepare, burn, utter, fulfil · **To what, where:** bullock, fulfilment, vow

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This is Numbers 15:8 · 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 (thou), 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:576
# text = And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or for peace-offerings unto the LORD;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	preparest	prepare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fulfilment	fulfilment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
31	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | present | thou | a bullock |  | fulfilment of a vow or peace offerings unto the LORD |  | for a burnt offering or a sacrifice | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bullock=Product for offering=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | participle |  | a vow or peace offerings unto the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fulfil** |  |  | a vow or peace offerings unto the LORD |  |  |  |  | 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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וְכִֽי־תַעֲשֶׂ֥ה בֶן־בָּקָ֖ר עֹלָ֣ה אוֹ־זָ֑בַח לְפַלֵּא־נֶ֥דֶר אֽוֹ־שְׁלָמִ֖ים לַֽיהוָֽה׃

[Numbers 15:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.8/)

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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:576` 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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