--- title: Leviticus 16:34 (JPS 1917) — And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement… · tree and pragmatics description: And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once in the year.' And he did as the LORD commanded Moses. Who acts: this, priest, LORD. 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And he did as the LORD commanded Moses. **Who acts:** this, priest, LORD · **What happens:** be, make, do, command · **To what, where:** everlasting statute, atonement, Moses · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Leviticus 16:34 · 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 (this, priest, 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:493 # text = And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once in the year.' And he did as the LORD commanded Moses. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 everlasting everlasting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 statute statute NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 13 atonement atonement NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 23 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 sins sin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 24 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 27 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 30 And and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 37 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | shall | this | a everlasting statute | | | | unto you | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | | atonement | | | year | for the children of Israel; because children's sins | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent atonement=Product for child=Beneficiary | | 3 | **do** | past | priest | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=Theme | 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} וְהָֽיְתָה־זֹּ֨את לָכֶ֜ם לְחֻקַּ֣ת עוֹלָ֗ם לְכַפֵּ֞ר עַל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מִכָּל־חַטֹּאתָ֔ם אַחַ֖ת בַּשָּׁנָ֑ה וַיַּ֕עַשׂ כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃פ [Leviticus 16:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.16.34/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:493` 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. - ← previous: [Leviticus 16:33 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.492/) - next →: [Leviticus 17:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.494/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 16:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.16.34/)