--- title: Leviticus 18:3 (JPS 1917) — After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye no… · tree and pragmatics description: After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do; and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their statutes. Who acts: ye, I. 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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 (ye, I), 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:513 # text = After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do; and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their statutes. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 doings doing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 12 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 doings doing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Canaan Canaan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 whither whither ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nsubj _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 39 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 42 cc _ _ 40 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 42 nsubj _ _ 42 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dwell** | past | ye | | | | | wherein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **do** | shall | ye | | | | after the doings of the land of Egypt | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bring** | present | I | | you | | | whither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | | 4 | **not** **do** | shall | ye | | | | after the doings of the land of Canaan | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **walk** | shall | ye | | | doings's statutes | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in statute=Trajectory | 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} כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֧ה אֶֽרֶץ־מִצְרַ֛יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְשַׁבְתֶּם־בָּ֖הּ לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֑וּ וּכְמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה אֶֽרֶץ־כְּנַ֡עַן אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲנִי֩ מֵבִ֨יא אֶתְכֶ֥ם שָׁ֙מָּה֙ לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֔וּ וּבְחֻקֹּתֵיהֶ֖ם לֹ֥א תֵלֵֽכוּ׃ [Leviticus 18:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:513` 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 18:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.512/) - next →: [Leviticus 18:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.514/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 18:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.3/)