--- title: Leviticus 17:14 (JPS 1917) — For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with t… · tree and pragmatics description: For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof; therefore I said unto the children of Israel: Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof; whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. Who acts: blood, I, Ye, life. 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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 (blood, I, Ye, life), 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:508 # text = For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof; therefore I said unto the children of Israel: Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof; whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. 1 For for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 all all ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 24 unto unto ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 41 for for SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 46 det _ _ 46 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 50 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 51 ; ; PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ _ 52 whosoever whosoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 53 nsubj _ _ 53 eateth eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 csubj:pass _ _ 54 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj:pass _ _ 55 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 56 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 57 aux:pass _ _ 57 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 parataxis _ _ 58 off off ADP RP _ 57 compound:prt _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the blood | one | | | | for the life of all flesh; with the life; all *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I | | | | | unto the children of Israel; therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **eat** | shall | Ye | the blood of no manner of flesh | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | the life of all flesh | the blood | | | | thereof *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **eat** | present | whosoever | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cut off** | shall · passive | | blood | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | 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} כִּֽי־נֶ֣פֶשׁ כָּל־בָּשָׂ֗ר דָּמ֣וֹ בְנַפְשׁוֹ֮ הוּא֒ וָֽאֹמַר֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל דַּ֥ם כָּל־בָּשָׂ֖ר לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֑לוּ כִּ֣י נֶ֤פֶשׁ כָּל־בָּשָׂר֙ דָּמ֣וֹ הִ֔וא כָּל־אֹכְלָ֖יו יִכָּרֵֽת׃ [Leviticus 17:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.17.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:508` 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 17:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.507/) - next →: [Leviticus 17:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.509/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 17:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.17.14/)