--- title: Leviticus 18:4 (JPS 1917) — Mine ordinances shall ye do, and My statutes shall ye keep, to walk… · tree and pragmatics description: Mine ordinances shall ye do, and My statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God. Who acts: ye, I, Mine. 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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, Mine), 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:514 # text = Mine ordinances shall ye do, and My statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God. 1 Mine mine PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ordinances ordinance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 10 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 therein therein ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=request, form=imp, indirect=1, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | shall | ye | Mine ordinances | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinance=Eventuality | | 2 | **keep** | shall | ye | My statutes | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statute=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | therein *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | I | the LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **ordain** | | Mine | | | | | | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} אֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֧י תַּעֲשׂ֛וּ וְאֶת־חֻקֹּתַ֥י תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ לָלֶ֣כֶת בָּהֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ [Leviticus 18:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:514` 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 18:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.513/) - next →: [Leviticus 18:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.515/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 18:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.4/)