Leviticus 3:8 · JPS 1917
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall dash the blood thereof against the altar round about.
Who acts: Aaron, sons · What happens: lay, kill, dash, offer · To what, where: hand, head, offering, blood
This is Leviticus 3:8 · 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 (Aaron, sons), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lay | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | aux |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 offering | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 offering | nmod:poss |
| 12 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 head | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kill | cc |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lay | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 tent | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tent | det |
| 19 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 meeting | case |
| 21 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tent | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 dash | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dash | cc |
| 24 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sons | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Aaron | case |
| 26 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 dash | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 dash | aux |
| 28 | dash | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lay | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 blood | det |
| 30 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dash | obj |
| 31 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 30 blood | advmod |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 34 altar | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 altar | det |
| 34 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dash | obl |
| 35 | round | round | ADV | _ | 36 about | advmod |
| 36 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 dash | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | shall | Aaron | Aaron's hand | the head of Aaron's offering | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon head=Destination | |||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | Aaron not said here | offering | before the tent of meeting | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | dash | shall | Aaron's sons | the blood | against the altar; about property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent blood=Instrument against altar=Patient | |||
| 4 | offer | Aaron | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וְסָמַ֤ךְ אֶת־יָדוֹ֙ עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ קָרְבָּנ֔וֹ וְשָׁחַ֣ט אֹת֔וֹ לִפְנֵ֖י אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד וְ֠זָרְקוּ בְּנֵ֨י אַהֲרֹ֧ן אֶת־דָּמ֛וֹ עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ סָבִֽיב׃
Leviticus 3:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:LEV:40 of Mova's parse database.
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