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title: Leviticus 10:9 (JPS 1917) — 'Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Who acts: you, ye, meeting. Leviticus 10:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 10:9 · JPS 1917

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'Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, meeting · **What happens:** drink, go, not die, be · **To what, where:** wine, tent, statute

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This is Leviticus 10:9 · 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: who acts (you, ye, meeting), 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:243
# text = 'Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
28	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	statute	statute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
36	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | no wine nor strong drink nor thy sons with thee |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | present | ye |  |  | the tent of meeting |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tent=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **die** | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | shall | meeting | a statute |  |  | throughout your generations | forever *property* | tree rules |

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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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יַ֣יִן וְשֵׁכָ֞ר אַל־תֵּ֣שְׁתְּ ׀ אַתָּ֣ה ׀ וּבָנֶ֣יךָ אִתָּ֗ךְ בְּבֹאֲכֶ֛ם אֶל־אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵ֖ד וְלֹ֣א תָמֻ֑תוּ חֻקַּ֥ת עוֹלָ֖ם לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

[Leviticus 10:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.10.9/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:243` 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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