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title: Leviticus 18:6 (JPS 1917) — None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to unc… · tree and pragmatics
description: None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. Who acts: None. Leviticus 18:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 18:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness.

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**Who acts:** None · **What happens:** approach, be, uncover · **To what, where:** any, LORD, nakedness

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This is Leviticus 18:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (None), 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:516
# text = None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness.
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	any	any	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	uncover	uncover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	nakedness	nakedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **approach** | shall | None |  |  | any |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to any=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  | LORD |  |  | of kin; near *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **uncover** | to-infinitive | None *not said here* | statutes's nakedness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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אִ֥ישׁ אִישׁ֙ אֶל־כָּל־שְׁאֵ֣ר בְּשָׂר֔וֹ לֹ֥א תִקְרְב֖וּ לְגַלּ֣וֹת עֶרְוָ֑ה אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃ס

[Leviticus 18:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness.**
2. [I am the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.517/)

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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:516` 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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