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title: Numbers 15:27 (JPS 1917) — And if one person sin through error, then he shall offer a she-goat… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if one person sin through error, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering. Who acts: one person, person. Numbers 15:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 15:27 · JPS 1917

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And if one person sin through error, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering.

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**Who acts:** one person, person · **What happens:** sin, offer · **To what, where:** error, she goat

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This is Numbers 15:27 · 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 (one person, person), 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:595
# text = And if one person sin through error, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sin	sin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	she	she	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **sin** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one person |  |  | error |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **offer** | shall | person | a she goat of the first year |  |  | then | for a sin offering *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent goat=Theme for offering=Goal |

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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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וְאִם־נֶ֥פֶשׁ אַחַ֖ת תֶּחֱטָ֣א בִשְׁגָגָ֑ה וְהִקְרִ֛יבָה עֵ֥ז בַּת־שְׁנָתָ֖הּ לְחַטָּֽאת׃

[Numbers 15:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.27/)

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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:595` 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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