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title: Leviticus 8:5 (JPS 1917) — And Moses said unto the congregation: 'This is the thing which the L… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Moses said unto the congregation: 'This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded to be done.' Who acts: Moses, This, LORD. Leviticus 8:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 8:5 · JPS 1917

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And Moses said unto the congregation: 'This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded to be done.'

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**Who acts:** Moses, This, LORD · **What happens:** say, be, command, do · **To what, where:** thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 8:5 · 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 (Moses, This, 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:LEV:179
# text = And Moses said unto the congregation: 'This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded to be done.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Moses |  |  |  |  | unto the congregation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | This | the thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **command** | present · perfect | the LORD | the thing |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |

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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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֖ה אֶל־הָעֵדָ֑ה זֶ֣ה הַדָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃

[Leviticus 8:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.8.5/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:179` 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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