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title: Leviticus 17:12 (JPS 1917) — Therefore I said unto the children of Israel: No soul of you shall e… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore I said unto the children of Israel: No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. Who acts: I, soul, stranger. Leviticus 17:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 17:12 · JPS 1917

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Therefore I said unto the children of Israel: No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

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**Who acts:** I, soul, stranger · **What happens:** say, eat, sojourn · **To what, where:** blood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 17:12 · 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 (I, soul, stranger), 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:506
# text = Therefore I said unto the children of Israel: No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|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	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sojourneth	sojourn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
27	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  | unto the children of Israel; therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** | shall | no soul of you | blood |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 3 | **sojourn** | present | any stranger |  |  |  |  | among you | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among you=Location |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive | no soul of you *not said here* | blood |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |

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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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עַל־כֵּ֤ן אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל כָּל־נֶ֥פֶשׁ מִכֶּ֖ם לֹא־תֹ֣אכַל דָּ֑ם וְהַגֵּ֛ר הַגָּ֥ר בְּתוֹכְכֶ֖ם לֹא־יֹ֥אכַל דָּֽם׃ס

[Leviticus 17:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.17.12/)

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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:506` 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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