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title: Numbers 15:9 (JPS 1917) — then shall there be presented with the bullock a meal-offering of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: then shall there be presented with the bullock a meal-offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil. Numbers 15:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 15:9 · JPS 1917

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then shall there be presented with the bullock a meal-offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil.

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**What happens:** present, mingle, offer · **To what, where:** meal offering, fine flour, three tenth parts

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This is Numbers 15:9 · 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: 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:577
# text = then shall there be presented with the bullock a meal-offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil.
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ephah	ephah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hin	hin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **present** | shall · passive |  | a meal offering of three tenth parts of a ephah of fine flour |  | there | then | with the bullock | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with bullock=Theme |
| 2 | **mingle** | participle |  | fine flour *not said here* |  |  |  | with a hin  half of oil | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with hin=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **offer** |  |  | three tenth parts of a ephah of fine flour |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication 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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וְהִקְרִ֤יב עַל־בֶּן־הַבָּקָר֙ מִנְחָ֔ה סֹ֖לֶת שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה עֶשְׂרֹנִ֑ים בָּל֥וּל בַּשֶּׁ֖מֶן חֲצִ֥י הַהִֽין׃

[Numbers 15:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.9/)

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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:577` 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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