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title: Leviticus 4:2 (JPS 1917) — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any one shall sin thro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any one shall sin through error, in any of the things which the LORD hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them: Who acts: you, one, LORD. Leviticus 4:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 4:2 · JPS 1917

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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any one shall sin through error, in any of the things which the LORD hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them:

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**Who acts:** you, one, LORD · **What happens:** speak, say, sin, command, not do, do · **To what, where:** error, things, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 4:2 · 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, one, 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:51
# text = Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any one shall sin through error, in any of the things which the LORD hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them:
1	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sin	sin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	_
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the children of Israel | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sin** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | any one |  |  | error |  | in any | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **command** | present · perfect | the LORD | the things |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **do** | shall | any one *not said here* | any one of things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |

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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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דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֘ללֵאמֹר֒ נֶ֗פֶשׁ כִּֽי־תֶחֱטָ֤א בִשְׁגָגָה֙ מִכֹּל֙ מִצְוֺ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֣א תֵעָשֶׂ֑ינָה וְעָשָׂ֕ה מֵאַחַ֖ת מֵהֵֽנָּה׃

[Leviticus 4:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.4.2/)

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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:51` 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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